- Introduction
- What's New?
- Features
- Upgrading the Design Editor
- Breaking Changes in 6.0
- Getting Started
- Integration with E-commerce
- Integration with Remote Asset Sources
- Printable Files and Proof Images
- Configuring Products
- Creating Product Templates
- User Interface
- Configuration Files
- APIs
- Add-ons
- System Requirements
- Troubleshooting
- Migrating Your Applications
- Licensing
- Copyright Notices
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Features
Applies to: Customer's Canvas On-Premises; Design Editor 6.15.0, 6.x (may differ) · Archived documentation
Print Products and Templates
- Print templates in Photoshop (PSD files) format
- Print templates in InDesign (IDML files) format
- Print templates in the original format
- Products with single and multiple pages
- Solid and image backgrounds
- Possibility to restrict selecting images for certain layers to specific predefined folders
- Placeholders for images and text
- Support for smart objects
- Vector masks and vector shapes
- Singleline and multiline text, text areas
- Curved text
- Stroke and shadow text effects
- In-string placeholders, both value lists and masks are allowed
- Support for custom fonts without installing them in the system
- Spot colors and color themes
- Overlays that are visible or invisible during printing
- Flexible control over what users can do with particular elements on templates
- CMYK print templates
- Preflighting and Preflight tool
- Copyfitting
Web-to-print Designer
- Support for any browser, including mobile platforms
- Support for Retina screens
- Manipulating one or multiple elements
- In-place text editing
- Different alignment options for elements
- Support for user photos uploaded from their devices or social networks (Facebook and Instagram)
- Support for public assets from Amazon S3, Depositphotos, GoogleDrive, and by direct URLs
- QR codes and barcodes
- Grid, Snap Lines, and safety lines
- Configurable color palettes with support for CMYK, Lab, and spot colors
- Mockup templates to preview designed products
- 3D previews
- Possibility to save products and continue editing them later on
- Spell checking in text layers
- Indication whether images have enough resolution to be printed on a design without quality loss
- Possibility to restrict editing designs to certain regions
- Support for product tags
Hi-Res Print Output Files
- Print output in JPEG, PNG, TIFF or PDF formats
- RGB/CMYK formats with color management for print outputs
- DeviceCMYK colors
- Configurable resolution of print outputs
- Vector PDF output
- Any dimensions (including large-scale products)
- Support for proof images - a product saved in a low resolution and watermarks for displaying on the website
- Crop marks and page information
- PDF metadata
- Variable data printing
Deployment and Integration
- Software Development Kit (SDK)
- JavaScript API with direct access to the object model
- C# API for the back end and stand-alone desktop applications
- Web API
- Support for any website hosted on any platform
- Cloud version which does not require any environment or deployment
- Integration within any e-commerce workflow
- Powerful API for web-to-print solutions (UI Framework)
- Ready-to-use plug-ins for nopCommerce, Shopify, and WooCommerce
- Integration with user accounts and orders in the e-commerce
- Possibility to pass any information from the e-commerce system to the designer
- Customizable and localizable user interface
- Customizable themes, including Material Design