Prepare Template Web To Print Apr 2023 Tutorial & Guide

This video illustrates preparing a document so it may be used for the Print Science designer.

In order to prepare a document for use with the designer, we first must convert the original files into a PDF.

We then open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro with the free-of-charge PDFlib block plugin installed.

The PDFlib block plugin may be downloaded from the Print Science.com website under Support.

This video will demonstrate the use of the PDFlib block tool.

We will create three blocks to show the three different block types.

First, to access the block tool, navigate to the top menu PDFlib Blocks.

In this menu, you'll want to select the option called Detect underlying font and color.

Within the same menu, you'll want to enable the PDFlib block tool by clicking here.

With the tool enabled, the cursor will become a pair of crosshairs.

You can begin to draw your first block.

We'll click and hold to select the name.

When you create the block, the block properties menu will appear.

Please note the block name.

The system automatically names these blocks.

The block name is never shown to the user in the user interface.

It is therefore strongly recommended to use the default block name.

Under the block type, you can select textline, textflow, or image.

We're going to do a textline for this block.

The description field should pertain to the content within the block.

It is used within both the designer and the end user interface.

Under the properties, we can see all the options we have for this block.

We can expand all by clicking this button.

We can see with the use of the detect underlying font and color option that we selected earlier that the system has found that Smart Creative Bold 7.5 point has been used.

It has also found that it is using the CMYK colors for its color.

We can change these if we wish by clicking on the ellipsis and it will open up all the fonts on our system.

Same for the fill color, if we want to change it we can click on it and input our own CMYK values here.

Scrolling down we can see additional options for this block.

We can adjust how content fits within the block by adjusting the position.

By clicking on the ellipsis we are shown this slide ruler.

We can either key in or slide to get to where we wish to have content fill the block.

We want it to go to the right and be just by the bottom.

Here we can enter default placeholder text that will be viewed by the end user during the personalization process.

When all the attributes and properties have been configured, we can check the close dialogue on apply box and click create.

This now creates our block.

For our next block, we'll make a textflow block for the address region of the card.

To do so, we draw another box as we did the first one.

We notice that the block name auto-names to Block_1, which we will leave.

We'll change the block type to textflow and add a description.

You can see under the properties that we have gained a few more sections available for this option.

When changing to the textflow block type, please note the additional properties that have become available.

We can expand those by clicking expand all.

We now have the ability to adjust the alignment for the text.

We will adjust it to the left.

You can also control indentation, tabs, characters and word spacing.

These are all the options on top of the original options that we had for the textline block.

We can add our default contents, same as we did before.

By clicking on the ellipsis it opens a window allowing us to enter multiple lines of default text.

Once the text is entered, click okay.

Then click create to finish creating the block.

The final block we're going to create is going to be an image block.

We do so by creating a block as we did before.

Noticing that it has auto-named to Block_2, we change the type to image and type in a description of what the block will contain.

Under the properties, we can adjust how content will be positioned within the block.

By clicking on the ellipsis we'll use the sliders to control how the content is going to fit within this block or we can key it in manually.

Click okay to apply the changes.

We can now create the block.

The final step to our template creation consists of removing the static text and images from the template.

We do so by using the edit PDF tool on the right.

With the tool selected we can simply click or drag over the objects that we want to have removed and delete them by hitting the delete button on our keyboard.

This will delete them from the template.

We can do so with the text and image that we have created a block for.

Once the objects and the text are removed from the document, we can save the PDF as our template by clicking the save button.

This concludes using the block tool for preparing a document so it may be used for the Print Science designer.