Change Log

Development aka Nightly Version: editor.printess.com/v/nightly/
This is our current version under development. It will give you the latest and greatest features but is not intended for production use and may contain issues while we are still working on it. Once we are convinced that these features are ready for release we will create a new fixed version and make it the current stable version after testing.

New Features

• New Select List + Info Form Field User Interface which displays text from the Info column on the Buyer Side selection menu underneath the Image and Label for each row(read more)

Bugfixes and Improvements

• Users can enter custom pasteboard colors
• Sticker Snippets and Layout Snippets are now displayed in alphabetical order on the Buyer Side
• Users can open the Printess Sticker Snippet and Layout Snippet Libraries from the New tab of the File Dialogue and customize/publish them as their own
• When the content of Multi Line text frames are made editable on the Buyer Side, the reduce font size Fit Text to Frame mode is automatically enabled for the frame
• When a web link is entered into the Info Text box of a Form Field, an info icon will appear on the Buyer Side that opens the web link within an overlay
• A Buyer Side Splitter guide can now be enabled from the Buyer View Appearance menu

Current Stable Version: editor.printess.com
This is the permalink to our latest stable version recommended for production. It always contains the actual version and related bug fixes and is checked by our test automation and QA angels.

Version 2.1.0 - 2023-02-28

https://editor.printess.com/v/2.1.0/

New Features

• New Form Field feature - row. This allows users to display multiple input fields as a single row on the Buyer Side. To use this feature, simply use the row column drop-down in the Form Field edit area to set the number for rows you wish to merge on the Buyer Side. Rows with corresponding numbers (1-10) will be displayed in the same row. Ex: In a wine menu Form Field, you can set the type / wine rows to 1 and glass / bottle rows to 2. (read more)
• The Splitter toolbar now has 3 new features! When a frame with Splitter enabled is selected, Buyers can use the toolbar to directly upload an image to the frame, select between 4 gap sizes (XS, S, M, XL), and alternate the frame between image frames and various pre-set Single Line text frames.(read more)
• New configurable Splitter Snippet Tags which use the values of the frame by default. (read more)
• Scissors now have the Add Gap Around, Remove Gap Around, and Extend to Bleed layout tools, available in the Frame Context Menu. (read more)
• Added HP Site Flow integration. (read more)
• Clicking and sliding the mouse over the eye and lock icons in the Layers tab will change (visiblily/editability) of all layers the mouse moves over.(read more)
• Open Save Token feature from Create Print Files Dialog that opens the current Buyer-State in Designer Side as a new Template.(read more)
• New Placement Margin arrow icons extend a frame to the bleed of a document
• Dock to Bleed feature lets backgroud extend to the bleed of a document. This feature enables you to use 1 layout snippet across multiple products.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Publishing Snippets now simultaneously saves the Template
• The select-list Form Field now allows users to force auto-complete by adding square brackets to either end of the list
• Previous Template versions can now be directly opened from the Template Context Menu
• The amount of columns for each Sticker cluster can now be set for the Buyer Side
• Buyer Side support for pan movement when mirror is enabled on frames
• Placement margins no longer allowed on documents with facing pages
• Added “dataOnly” parameter to the Printess API, this does not copy over all resources and only counts the size of the saveToken as storage size
• Copy and Paste is now enableable for the Buyer Side for movable and deletable frames
• Buyers can now upload images from mobile devices by selecting Upload Images from Phone and scanning a QR code (enabled by default)
• The Add Grid Layout feature in the Image Frame Features tab lets you insert various pre-made layout snippets onto your document which you can then directly upload images to
• Width and Height document settings can now be aspect-ratio locked

Version 2.0.0 - 2023-01-07

https://editor.printess.com/v/2.0.0/

New Features

• Added Bubble.io integration (read more)
• Added Regular Expression Validation for string Form Fields. (read more)
• Added various label options for the Label data type Form Field. (read more)
• Multi Line text can now be set to automatically adjust document height. (read more)
• Form Fields can be inserted directly onto a page as a Single Line text frame by drag-dropping it from the Form Field tab. (read more)
• A coin icon is now displayed on price-relevant Form Fields. (read more)
• Color Management in Color-Dialogue. Once you create a new RGB or CMYK color the respective corresponding RGB or CMYK value is now created via ICC-color conversion giving you more realistic colors.
• Added the Template Type feature for easily merging Base and Design Templates and organizing your Templates into Libraries for Resources (fonts, color schemes, images), Layout Snippets, and Sticker Snippets.(read more)
• Users can select the Output Proof PDF checkbox within the Create Print Files menu to insert a “Proof” watermark on the file. (read more)

Bugfixes and Improvements

• New Info Text box available for all Form Fields
• 2 new Form Field data types (Buyer Colors and Buyer Fonts)
• You can now open the original PDF or uploaded image in a new browser tab directly from the Printess Image tab
• Rich Text settings are now saved when text content is deleted from a Multi Line text frame, so you no longer need to assign a Style to define the base Style of the frame
• New Form Field option to hide Buyer Side table columns until a user selects a row to edit it
• Table rows are sortable on the Buyer Side. A Buyer can now select the table header to sort the rows or manually drag-drop them to the desired position

Version 1.4.0 - 2022-11-10

https://editor.printess.com/v/1.4.0/

New Features

• Added Render Quality settings for effects and wraps on Sub Documents. (read more)
• Placement Margin Settings allow placement of layout snippets to be defined independent of page size. (read more)
• Clip Frames on Base Layer will clip all frames on base layer to the Snippet Placement Margins. (read more)
• Added Form Field UI “Checkbox”. (read more)
• Added Link button to open Snippets directly from the search. (read more)
• WebP image files can now be uploaded with full support.
• HEIF / HEIC image files can now be uploaded with full support.
• Added the image Splitter tool, which allows users to further manipulate images while keeping a set distance on provided grid. (read more)
• New Scissors tool (must enable the Splitter tool in Buyer Side Frame Settings).
• Added “Insert Form Fields” to Multi Line text feature Buyer Side settings. (read more)
• Buyer View Appearance Settings now can toggle Buyer Side options for “Show Save Button” and “Show Save & Quit Button”. Returns save togen and type “save” or “close” depending on which option is selected.
• Auto Scale is now restricted to proper screen resolution

Bugfixes & Improvements

• New Wizard button and toolbar icon for the Style and Form Field Wizard. The + button now creates a new empty style or Form Field.
• Removed the UI Settings button on Buyer Side.
• Save-as now allows users to specify the folder to save a Template into
• Moved the User Interface option checkbox and changed name to “Use Frame as Button”
• It is now possible to disable cropping for Image-ID Form Fields
• Every Snippet origin can now be set for single or multiple frames
• Style Text-Property now works on Multi Line text with the encode() funcion
• Printess now supports Layout Snippets from left or right pages
• Custom placement margins can be set for Document Size Form Fields
• Added option for a Reset to Default Image button on the Buyer Side Photo Frame
• Renamed the Buyer lock text frame settings “Expressions” to “Keep Form Fields”
• Can now select “DataMatrix” on the QR code drop-down menu
• Paragraph styles can now be added to Multi Line text frames and are selectable on the Buyer Side
• Users can now clipboard paste SVG vector content to exchange paths with Adobe Illustrator
• Preview documents now take higher priority over thumbnail documents
• Layout Snippet orientation filter will now apply the Square layout to a Snippet when the Portrait or Landscape options are not selected
• User is asked which page to place Layout Snippet if placed on a facing page and difference of the aspect ratio from Snippet to page are equal (<0.1)
• Users can now select to Add Custom Price Handling Code to Iframe-Code (in the API Tokens and Code Examples Settings Menu).
• Sub Document Bleed can be done on fit or fill placement, when NO effect and NO Warp is enabled.
• Select-list Form Field properties: Added 3 additional “meta” field columns
• Default Max. Chars limit for Single Line texts is now set to 100

Version 1.3.0 - 2022-09-08

https://editor.printess.com/v/1.3.0/

New Features

• Color Multiply for Images. (read more)
• Stroke in Multi Line Text + new Style properties: fontStrokeWidth and fontStrokeColor (same like for single line text). (read more)
• Multi document merge + Is Merge Target property for documents (read more)
• Force text validation for form field filled text frames (read more)
• Price Display & Priced Snippets, Form Fields and Documents (read more)
• New Subdocument bleed settings to allow for bleeds when no warps or effects are active
• Finally a completely new Buyer View Appearance dialogue with better explanations and a new structure (read more)
• Select Paragraph Styles in Multi-Line Texts on Buyer Side

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Set no. of columns for layout snippets
• Added transparent color for buyer side
• Frame Markers for statistics & upsell
• Control Paragraph background color via Style
• Test merge workflow documents via a simple form
• Added ${group._(x)} syntax to address form-field control-groups
• Additional icons for document buyer side properties
• Exchange-ID for buyer designed layouts
• Place Layout Snippets on left/right page of a facing page layout
• Editable documents can now be displayed with tab navigation without using steps
• Support of mandatory, offensive language and clear on focus for Text-Area
• Added Swedish hyphenation

Version 1.2.0 - 2022-06-25

https://editor.printess.com/v/1.2.0/

New Features

• Clip Frames underneath. This will clip all elements below a shape or a single line text frame within the same layer. A great feature to create cool text/photo artworks or cut out arbitrary formed printing surfaces. (read more)
• Stroke in Multi Line Text. Including Style properties: fontStrokeWidth and fontStrokeColor (same like for single line text).
• Multiple paths and fill mode for shapes

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Massive speed improvements for page (+preview) rendering, switched from png to jpg

Version 1.1.0 - 2022-06-15

https://editor.printess.com/v/1.1.0/

New Features

• New Zoom Button for buyer side. The drop down also features quick zoom to left page, right page and complete view of a spread in facing page documents. (read more)
• contentTemplate (Editor property) for template switching while trying to preserve user edited content from a formerly edited template by supplying the sessions save token.
• Arrange, Add and Delete Pages in a book. (read more)
• Control Groups for Form Fields to allow for split one line input (e.g. dial code drop down + phone number input). Added configurable digit grouping for phone numbers. (read more)
• Filter list-type Form Fields based on other form fields. This allows for one form field being the category selection and the other form field getting filtered by it. Additionally Printess makes sure that a category change still results in a valid value for the filtered form field. (read more)
• Allow for PDF uploads on buyer side including limiting the upload to the safer PDF/X-4 format. (read more)

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Icon for custom (Photo) Snippets Tabs has gotten a nice new drop down to select symbol.
• Filter Layout Snippets based on the documents aspect ratio (for flex documents). (read more)
• Fixed size offsets for flex documents. (read more)
• White Cursor option in cases where an inverse cursor just not cut it.
• Read/Copy text from another single line or path text programmatically.
• Empty Pages Validation avoid users accidentally leave empty pages in their photo books.
• Removed Lock Cover Inside in photo book settings as it has gotten obsolete (use Page Navigation - Icons Mode and a separate cover document instead).
• Render Single Line- and Path-Text for engraving as a unionised path without overlaps.
• Massive speed improvement for thumbnail generation.

Version 1.0.0 - 2022-05-01

https://editor.printess.com/v/1.0.0/

New Features

• New photo/Snippets Tab - This complete new UI concepts is ideal for all kind of photo products or products where buyers should have freedom to design what they want. It’s higly customizable an provides a place as well as custom icons for all buyer elements like photos, snippets and form fields. (read more)

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Selectable Folder Path to go to the folder of a search result.
• Added Photo Stickers Tab to My Images.
• Behaviour Change: Preview pages can only be zoomed and panned. No items can be selected.
• ‘Is Document Step’ is now also selectable in the document properties menu
• We redesigned the buyer view appearance dialogue again as with all the new added functionality from the snippets tab we wanted to tidy up.
• New Expert Mode Feature allows experienced buyers to switch all editable frames to be moveable and deletable without setting these buyer side properties. (read more)
• Last but not least: We took some extra effort to fix numerous small bugs which had always been low on our list.

Version 0.9.9 - 2022-03-22

https://editor.printess.com/v/0.9.9/

New Features

• New Engraving functionality - Create all kinds of engraving and laser products (read more)
• No Code editor for Styles - Create and edit styles without any code
• Granular control for the appearance of the Add To Cart and Exit Button via translations (read more)
• New Image fit mode AI. Now we can detect faces in an uploaded image and automatically adjust cropping to focus on them (read more)
• New Photo Book mode which allows adding and removing pages on Buyer Side (read more)
• Granular Control for Buyer Side frame style. Professional and Simple edit modes are now available.
• Finally! Page Navigation with live Thumbnails! (read more)
• New Feature: Merge template styles / template form fields. Styles are appended at the end of the existing styles (=> they can overwrite styles) Template form fields are inserted or replaced. Existing form fields are overwritten.(read more)
• Buyer Side theming in the account portal. (read more)
• Inline editing for all text types (single line, multi line and even path text) works on Desktop and Mobile. Single line text & path text inline editing can be separately activated for DESKTOP & MOBILE. (read more)
• New feature: Upload Handwriting Image. If turned on, a user can upload an image with handwriting into a multi line text. This feature is only active if Rich Text editing is enabled on desktop and mobile. (read more)

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Merge settings moved to template preferences and now also allow to disable page content merge to allow for pure resource merges
• Group and Layout Snippets allow for custom thumbnails now
• Custom and color picker option for buyer side
• Image Groups with search option for image libraries
• Invert image filter option for buyers
• Show page buttons for page navigation can now be set independently for desktop and mobile.
• New Short-Cut for Rich Text Editing. CTRL/COMMAND “+” und “-” scales the entire text up and down.
• doc.name === “xxx” and doc.mode === “display” || “production” can now get used in conditions
• Fit Text to Frame can now also reduce font size while typing to let text fit. Reducing happens always to the next smaller font size.
• Font Size list for buyer side is now editable.
• Zoom Padding added to allow for page zoom adjustment independent from pasteboard.
• AllowZoomAndPan will now only affect the user’s ability to zoom and pan. Even with the option turned off, Printess will still zoom in on edited items on mobile and to steps on desktop if zoom-mode is set to frame.
• New Photobook feature Add Frames from Layer. The ability to select a layer from which all frames are copied when creating new spreads on the buyer side.

Version 0.9.4 - 2022-01-12

https://editor.printess.com/v/0.9.4/

New Features

• Frame resizing with pressing OPTION - (Mac) or ALT - (Win) will resize around the center point.
• Condition editor in the style editor and in form fields (write if:$ in a style to start the editor without a condition) (read more)
• New dialogue Buyer View Appearance features a preview of Buyer Side UI (read more)
• Buyer font change for Single Line Text & Path Text (read more)
• Fit Text To Frame for multi line text frames (read more)
• Image Filter Snippets for self made stunning effects selectable for uploaded images on buyer side (read more)
• Invert sub documents for engraving previews (read more)
• Added versioning for the UIHelper (getting-started branches) (read more)

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Improved navigation and ok button in mobile UI
• Added Menu in mobile top navbar (undo/redo, first/last step, etc.)
• Added Step Tabs for navigating through steps for desktop and mobile, improved badge-list positioning
• Images are now directly distributed on upload
• Added Ui Hints for “Change Layout” button (desktop & mobile) and Add Design “Plus” (only mobile).
• Animated basket button for better visibility and call to action.
• Sub-Documents can be renamed and still keep their references (don’t need to get reselected in documents where they are used)
• Sub documents are rendered with the size of the placed frame, instead of the sub document size
• Placeholder image now appears as an option for images and new images.
• Pixel mask effect moved to image feature settings (where it belongs)
• Buyer side UI hints (controllable via Buyer View Appearance settings) (read more)

Version 0.9.3 - 2021-11-18

https://editor.printess.com/v/0.9.3/

New Features

• From now on every new Printess version also have a freeze version available to our users. Instead of using the current stable version which is always available under editor.printess.com we offer fixed versions to customers who would like to ensure that functionality does not change for them if we change our stable version. The Freeze Version URL will be noted in the changelog under each new version - e.g. for this version the Freeze Version can be found under the url: https://editor.printess.com/v/0.9.3/

• Conditional disclosure for Form Fields - Show Form fields based on conditions (read more)

• New form field ui-mode color-list made for fast creation of color selection form fields (without the need to create images for the UI) (read more)

• ‘Clear’ on editing and ‘Don’t print if unchanged’ buyer side property for Single Line Text, Multiline Text and Text on Path (read more)

• Auto distribute for images making it super easy for buyers to configure documents with a lot of images (read more)

• Granular control of the steps markup. One can now determine whether to show title or badge for steps.

• Control the maximum preview resolution of images for the buyer side (read more)

• New General Buyer Side Settings (read more)

  • Disable, enable Page Navigation, Undo Redo Buttons on document level.
  • New UI element Page Buttons for page navigation in the view container.
  • New UI element My Images Tab keeps your images always in view.

• Frame-Steps have a new option “Hide Frame” when turned on, the Frame is no longer selectable via mouse or touch but only via next step button. In addition the frame border remains hidden, even when selected. (read more)

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Up to 5x faster warp effects!
• Enhanced mobile UI
• Enhanced preview resolution management for images
• Auto focus a specific frame when a page is visited on buyer side
• Added Image-Id Form Field type with predefined aspect ratio for images assigned via Form Field
• Allow Zoom & Pan for document pages is moved to general Buyer Side settings
• Add arrow-key (up/down) controls to Length-Box and all number inputs. All numbers with or without units (positions, paddings, effects …) can now be increased by pressing arrow-up and decreased by pressing arrow-down on the keyboard.
• New Behaviour: We changed the order of image filters. As a result sepia filtered images can now be colorized. Please check your current documents which are using saturation or hue-rotate in combination with other filters.
• New Behaviour: Zoom and Pan is only available for Images which allow “Buyer Upload” (has folder checked). The default image (The image assigned to a frame in design-mode) is no longer scaleable or cropable if the image is MANDATORY. To avoid that users get confused by zooming into the placeholder image.
• Breaking Change: Removed Automatic Preview-to-Steps conversion. Instead we display a dedicated Preview button if no steps are present.
• Is Mandatory works now also for form fields of type “image-id”
• Made single spread view the default in buyer side

2021-09-03

New Features

• Added check for offensive language in single and multiline text (read more)
• Added validation messages and alerts for overflowing frames, missing characters, bad image quality, offensive language and unchanged mandatory personalizations. (read more)
• Added multilanguage support for buyer side editor including custom translations for example values. (read more)

2021-08-17

New Features

• Form fields can now have max characters, validation and can be set to mandatory
• Refined merge document workflow including simple test interface (read more)
• Pinned form fields can now be template form fields
• All new steps driven buyer side workflow (read more)
• Added repeat layout snippets for document wide page styles to be applied by buyers (read more)
• Documents now have a setting if they should change their size according to the DOCUMENT_SIZE form field. DOCUMENT_SIZE form field can now have multiple entries with the same size by adding letters like abc (e.g.10x21a, 10x21b, …) (read more)
• Saved thumbnails now contain non print layers (look exactly like the designers view)
• Template data is now saved encrypted
• Added template title property to control buyer side template name (read more)
• Removed Primary option for documents

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Cropped images are now placed correctly in thumbnail preview images
• Cropped subdocuments output correctly now
• Centered strokes with blendmode normal output as pure stroke without fill (e.g. for die cut lines)
• Added frontend API methods to retrieve and navigate directly to preview steps
• Added auto stepping to preview documents before checkout if they are present in the template
• Fixed mobile device change orientation
• Support for PDF files

2021-05-11

New Features

• Added option to pin form fields to frames (read more)

• Define one or more frames as background in buyer side. (read more)

• Images files can now be dragged from explorer/finder directly onto a spread in Printess

• Warning if a used font or image is being removed - helpful for deleting unused images or fonts

• Folders in the open dialog can now be collapsed and last selected folder is focused after reload

• Added warning if glyph is missing in font (applies to all text features)

• Selecting a frame and pasting a color value like “#ff2234” will now change the primary color of this frame (read more)

• Text on path now supports:

  • Flip text direction (read more)
  • Max chars (read more)
  • Text before & after (read more)
  • Mandatory
  • Upper-case and lower-case (read more)

• New React integration example available on github

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Create new template has now a default page-size set
• Auto Generated global form-fields had still shown up after new template creation
• Fixed wrong selection placement when entering numeric position
• Fixed wrong slider behaviour on length-input-boxes
• Text on path with high distance used to flip the starting point by 180 degrees
• Keyboard handling in buyer-side is fixed, Printess should only grab CTRL+Z, CTRL+Y and “DELETE” key.
• Removed any global CSS pollution
• In some documents the page bar was not showing all pages.
• Page thumbnails where missing on buyer side

2021-04-27

• Added New Preference Dialog and options to show image titles and to turn of page thumbnails to increase saving speed in some data heavy documents.
• When leaving the buyer-side Printess now automatically reverts all changes made while buyer-testing. Changes can be recovered pressing “redo” a couple of times.
• Separated buyer-Undo from Designer Undo. Clicking “Undo” in buyer side will never revert changes made in Design-mode.
• Added swagger open api support. click here
• When a font does not define a glyph/character, it will be hidden (no browser font fallback anymore). This applies to single line, multi line and path text.
• Form Fields now show their name and caption in Designer Side
• Color dialog improvements:
  If you change the values of the selected color mode it now changes all other color mode values. If you change a channel value in a non selected color, it will not update any values of other channels. So for example, if you have selected CMYK and change CYAN it will adjust all RGB values, but if you change RED it will not update the CMYK values. (edited)
• Added image-resolution-warning
  Printess now shows a warning sign on each image frame which does not meet the required minimum DPI. More details are displayed when the frame is selected.
• Font sometimes had double mentions of their styles like “bold bold”
• Fixed undo/redo behaviour of form fields
• Removed unnecessary undo-steps
• Fixed old-version warning which occasionally pops up even if no changes have been made

2021-04-19

• Added user hints to point out some important icons in the toolbar, so you can get much quicker acquainted with the UI.
• Reworked the way how new templates are created, either from scratch or via the “new” templates. When you reload the editor, you will now get a message asking you if you want to continue where you have left. And it’s more obvious now how to open a template in general.
• On the mobile view we have fixed some issues which could cause the UI to temporarily freeze.
• Improved the form-based editing of multi-line text frames and added a handy button to reset all character-styles but keep the paragraph-styles
• Added full support for Spot and CMYK colors in PDF rendering.