When your customer designs a product with custom text or a custom image, configento.app creates a print file for each of these fields: as SVG and as PDF, at the real size of the design zone. Your production doesn't have to rebuild the design.
When there are print files
The print files are created during the price check, when a configuration goes into the cart. So they exist in shops whose plugin has configento.app check the price: always in Shopware, PrestaShop and WooCommerce, in Magento with the price check set to Shadow or Enforce.
Each filled field gets two files. The name starts with the characteristic's Internal name (ID):
| File | Content |
|---|---|
logo-print.svg |
Vector file of the design |
logo-print.pdf |
Print PDF with bleed and crop marks |
What the file contains
- Size: the design zone in mm, from the fixed zone on the characteristic or from an SVG template. If the zone grows with the chosen format, the file has the size of that format.
- Text: as paths, so the print shop doesn't need the font.
- Picture: the original your customer uploaded, with their crop, rotation and mirroring.
- Ink only: no product image in the background, no guides.
- Colour: the chosen colour value, e.g.
#C9A227. A finish such as hot foil, embossing or one colour is noted in the file; the colour stays the chosen value.
The PDF
- The trim size is the design zone, plus 2 mm bleed and crop marks.
TrimBoxandBleedBoxare set. - Pictures run into the bleed, text stays inside the safe margin.
- Transparency of a PNG is kept.
- The PDF is created in the background right after the price check, so shops that copy files right after the order find it ready. If it cannot be created, the PDF entry disappears from the files and the SVG print file remains.
Where you find the files
The price check lists the files in the configuration under configuration.<field>.files with kind: "print", each with a download URL as for uploaded files. Plugins that copy uploaded files into the order take the print files along.
Limits
- An SVG logo stays a vector in the PDF as well: paths, shapes, strokes, gradients, clip paths, transparency, CSS from
<style>and embedded PNG or JPEG images are kept. If the logo contains text with fonts, masks, filters, patterns or markers, this field only gets the SVG print file, no PDF. - Colours stay RGB. configento.app does not create CMYK or spot colours; the print shop converts them.
- A text in the fallback fonts “Sans” or “Serif” gets no print file. This also applies if no font is ticked on the characteristic.
- Without a price check in the shop, no print files are created. The order then contains the design data, the product image and, for a custom image, the original to download, as before.