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Before we can
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proceed with the Invent series
of tutorials to show you all about
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Infigo,
Invent the plugin for Adobe InDesign.
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It's important that we understand
some elements of the MegaEdit
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product provided by Infigo
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So MegaEdit is our flagship product editor
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and it works seamlessly
inside your browser and in conjunction
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with your Infigo storefronts
and platforms.
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The reason
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In order to use Invents,
you need to have a overview.
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Understanding of MegaEdit
is that they share a lot of resources,
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they share some terminology,
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and in order to effectively
use your Invent files,
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you need to understand
how it's going to pass
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data over to MegaEdit
and how they will be utilized.
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And that's the kind of information
will cover
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in this tutorial.
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So starting at the beginning,
what is MegaEdit?
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And you can see an example of MegaEdit
on my screen right now.
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So it is Infigo’s flagship
personalization software.
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It allows you to develop
and configure dynamic products for a full
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Web two print experience.
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It's all done within
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your browser, as you can see here
with online editing features
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seamlessly linked with your
Infigo storefronts.
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Now all of the products that you have
within MegaEdit are fully configurable
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with complete control over
what end users are able to modify.
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So for example,
I have a basic business card template
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open on my screen right now
and you can see this is open in MegaEdit.
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We're able to fully define
the content of this business card.
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So this includes things
like changing the background color,
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changing the utilized imagery
on the particular
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product,
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modifying text color,
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changing the text itself.
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All of this is configured
on a product template,
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and there's two ways in which
we can configure these product templates.
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One of them is through MegaEdit directly.
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The other is through Infigo Invent
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in which we then export a file
and send that into MegaEdit.
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And then we've essentially
got the same format between the two.
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So we're using Invent to create a format
which can be utilized by MegaEdit.
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So next we'll look at what is Invent.
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So it is an Adobe InDesign plugin
which was provided by Infigo.
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It allows you to set up complex
configurable MegaEdit variable products
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from within your Adobe InDesign interface.
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So what this essentially means
and how this allows you to save time
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is that you can utilize
your existing artwork files.
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So rather than having a design
of a photo book or a design of a
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business
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card or
whatever it may be already in InDesign,
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but then having to recreate it
in MegaEdit.
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You can now save time
by just loading up the Infigo Invent plugin
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and then setting up your product template
so that
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your actual InDesign file
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is the one we're using to define
which bits are configurable,
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what values
we can put into certain places,
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and then we can export that whole thing
as what we call a MEX file,
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which we then import
directly into MegaEdit
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and our Infigo storefront.
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So how
do MegaEdit and Invent work together?
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So we can use Invent within adobe
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indesign
to quickly set up configurable products.
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So this is things such as defining
the resources you want to use.
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So cliparts, colors, text,
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libraries, linking those to variables
which are used to create forms
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where users can input information
and then linking those variables
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or resources
to particular fields on your template.
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From there, we can export
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the configured template
from Adobe InDesign
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and that will be for direct import
into your Infigo storefront
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as a product.
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One of the time saving
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benefits of the Infigo Invent package
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Is that a lot of the resources
that you need to make as part
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of your MegaEdit file set up
which will discover in this tutorial
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are automatically
brought over
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by the MEX file
that it's exported from Infigo Invent.
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So for example
we're looking at things like canvas
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stock items, fonts,
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clip art resources and so on.
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So this saves time because a lot of that
is automatically configured
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and brought over
based on your InDesign documents, rather
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than having to configure them
within MegaEdit itself.
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Once in the MegaEdit editor,
you can allow and configure
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the set up of the product
to allow your customers to access
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and configure their design
based on the rules that you have set.
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So for example, we set up our variables.
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We set up a form in our Invent package
and now we can see
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that as a result of MegaEdit,
we have a fully featured form
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which will
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drive the information
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on our product itself.
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But it's important to note
that the file you get from Invent
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is basically a timesaver,
so you're not limited to creating things
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on an Invent and then with no capability
to modify them within MegaEdit.
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So for example,
we've brought in an Invent file
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and imported it into one of our products.
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However, I'm still able to further modify
this template if I wish to do so.
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So if I want to put some additional rules
or move
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some of those elements around,
I can still do that within mega.
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Edit I'm not limited
to just setting things up
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in the Invent package.
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Once that template is configured,
we can allow our customers
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to design their products using this form
and then from within.
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MegaEdit
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where pricing is
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applied by other details of the product
or applied,
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we can then add that to our basket
and complete our purchase process.
