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Process automation

First of all - a wunderful product you gave us with FancyProductDesigner!


As we plan to do some automation for order processing, it would be nice to have the following possibilities:


- automatically export FancyProduct with completion of an order

- therefor it would be nice to be able to define default export settings for a product

- exclude layers or images from export (like Paddaman requested earlier)

- callback hook (to do further processing like converting RGB-PDF to CMYK-PDF and so on..)


Is it possible to add (at least some of) the requested features?

If not, any suggestions or workarounds?


Thanx a lot!





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I know - these features are a must have. As well as non-printing layers, you should be able to toggle layer visibility so you can show and hide guides and bleeds etc.

Yea This is seriously the most important thing to use this plugin efficiently.

 

Agreed – I would also gladly pay to see improvement on the production part of this plugin. Very important.

I hope it's done early...:

- automatically export FancyProduct with completion of an order

 

so, christmas is coming..... I think this will be neccesary before that time.

do you think it will be ready by then ?


Is there no way to try this before we buy? I'd like to make sure it works before we pay €20/week. If it doesn't, is there a refund option?

I would think that you are expecting a few bugs with this, surprised you aren't letting people in to test it properly first.


Anyone else tried it out?

Good idea

Good news, and good plan!


JPEG to us, is probably the least used of the supplied formats, due to lack of transparency-support. I think that applies to most people doing screen printing. High resolution PNG (300 dpi) works well. We could also use PDF or SVG, but have had some troubles with the fonts, mostly that information about line height and letter spacing is lost when exporting.

yey that's cool! I think it would be nice to select elements you want to exclude from export (like in admin solution for fancy product designer) as well as set the basic settings like output file, image format, View(s), scaling etc...


I'd love to test the beta.

Of course, I meant €20/month.. first month, then 40. So it's about $270-275/year. I'd expect a solid product for that price.


I just subscribed and the first test was not good: The file generated from the link in the e-mail was not the same as the one downloaded from the Admin site. The first page/view is not sized the same as the Print Box, as you can see from the attached files.


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Any news?

Would really like to use something like that! I'll definitely register for the beta.


Sending an e-mail with all attachments to an admin would be great, optionally in a zip file. If PDF/SVG's are well supported (i.e: troubles with the fonts) it's probably best but like Andreas said a hi-res PNG works too. Support for multiple views and the possibility to remove the background layer, or a layer with a specific name, is critical.


When multiple layers are used and we export all layers, the resolution of the source file should be used. Currently, if you remove the background layer and export all layers at once with a scale factor of x2, FPD takes a snapshot of the staging area and increase the size of the snapshot by 2, effectively loosing quality.


Looking forward to test the beta!

For anyone following this, there seems to be some issues, at least for my part. Some design-elements are not positioned or sized correctly in the generated PDFs, in all my tests so far. I have created a ticket, and Radykal is helping me, so hopefully he will have it sorted soon. I will keep this post updated with my results.

This is a good idea! I would love for the image export in the backend to either be automated and available to the customer to export/download a high resolution image. For my workflow (downloadable images), it makes no sense (and is very time consuming) for me to have to export every order and email the image. It needs to be automatic.


Thanks!

This is a two year old post, and it has still not been implemented. Many much less important features have been added during this time. Sure, we have different needs, but you need to see the importance of this, Radykal.


Some points:

  • There are many posts here about this same thing.
  • We're willing to pay for it, wouldn't cost you an thing.
  • You could even hire someone else to do write the changes if you don't have time.
  • And then you could even sell it as another add-on, or just add to the main plugins price.
  • It would greatly improve your good product and it's value.

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