We are very happy to welcome Peter Spier to our team. Peter is our new Support Specialist and he will be handling a large portion of customer support. I’ve known Peter for many years. He is one of my co-moderators over at Adobe’s InDesign forums. if you post on the
Until today, PrintUI had two types of text frames: unlocked frames and locked frames. Locked frames had the behavior that they expanded in height but had a fixed width, while unlocked frames expanded in both directions. The direction that text frames expand were dependent on the vertical justification settings of
PrintUI image galleries now support the ability to search for images. This capability can be added to any gallery, but the implementation will vary. For example, for galleries that connect to a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, the gallery connector code will usually just call the DAM’s search API to
PrintUI now supports purchasing and using stock photography from Fotolia (www.fotolia.com). To get some sense of how it looks to an end user, click on the Demo button from the printui.com home page and then click the Add Image button after selecting a template. A new Fotolia tab is shown
Today we have added several new features for EasyPrintUI and have begun restructuring the code with the intent of supporting localizations later this year. New Features for EasyPrintUI Advanced The most significant new feature for the Advanced version is template-by-template options. In other words, for each of your templates you
You can now generate PNG files using the requestpreview and the getresult APIs. This is especially useful for templates that have been created with a transparent background. Simply set the type parameter for the API to “png”. Please see the PrintUI InDesign Server APIs document for more details.
PrintUI offers a few different ways of controlling resolution of linked images. The options differ slightly and it is not always obvious how they interact. Here I will try to explain it in detail. A bit of history: Among the first features we introduced to PrintUI was the ability to
We just rolled out “Version 2” of PrintUI. Normally, PrintUI does not change version numbers as we deploy new improvements, but this release is different for a couple of reasons. First of all, there are many improvements to the app. Below is a full list. Second of all, the improvements
When InDesign generates a PDF, it uses a “PDF preset” to specify various options to specify various options. For example, you can specify image resolutions or whether to include crop marks or bleeds. We have now made it easier for you to upload and manage your own PDF presets for
We have added several new features to EasyPrintUI based on requests from our clients. If you’re not familiar with EasyPrintUI, please see a description or videos to see how you can be up and running with your own web-to-print or web-to-web solution with zero programming and in only one day.
Flex recently became a top level project at Apache and released version 4.9.0. I’m personally very excited about the project and I’ve seen a lot of confusion and misinformation on the web. Here’s some of facts as well as some of my thoughts on the subject. I hope it will
By default, PrintUI displays a text palette for editing all text attributes. Things like font, size, line spacing, color, etc. can all be changed. For cases where the designer does not want the end user to change anything other than the text, the text palette can be hidden. Brand Management
