¶ Creating New Products
These are the steps required to prepare a document for Design Online. You will perform steps 1-3 on your local computer and steps 4-7 on the Designer server:
- Convert the original document to PDF
- Open the document in Acrobat Pro
- Using PDFlib Block plug-in, add variable data blocks to PDF
- Create a new product on the Designer Server
- Upload the PDF to the Designer server
- Upload fonts to the Designer server
- Adjust options and overrides for product
- Test the product on the Designer server
¶ Create new product on Designer server
After you have added the variable data blocks to the PDF template files, the next step is to create and configure products on the Designer server. The video below illustrates the following steps:
- Creating a new product on the Designer server
- Adding one or more PDF template files to the product
- Adjusting optional controls for text and image blocks
¶ Templates
Products are created within your Designer Admin account. Once a product has been created you can then add the necessary Template(s) to it.
¶ Double Sided Products
The Science Designer offers special functions for the case where the document is double-sided. You can upload a number of templates that are available for the front-side of the document and a number of templates that are available for the back-side of the document. Your customer can then easily switch between the different templates for the front-side and the different templates for the back side.
This video illustrates the customer's experience when using the Designer for double-sided products:
¶ Configuration of double sided products
In order to configure a product that offers independent selection of front-side and back-side templates, you will configure 2 distinct products. The first product contains the templates for the front-side selector and the second product contains the products for the back-side selector. The final steps are to link the 2 products together. While editing the front-side product, select the checkbox indicating that this product is a double-sided product. Then select the product containing the back-side templates from the dropdown selector.
This video illustrates the process of setting up double sided products with different templates for the front and the back sides: