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In this tutorial we'll learn
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how to create variable image fields
linked to an image selector on your.
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MegaEdit form.
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Will begin by creating a clip
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art set resource
containing several image options.
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Next will create an image variable
to link it.
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To the clip set.
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And finally, we'll link the image variable
to an image frame.
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Within our artwork.
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Some key terms of notes for this tutorial
you'll hear me talking about variables.
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Variables within Invent.
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Are used to create. Forms
for your products.
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They can take the form of text,
boolean, true or false values.
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Dropdowns and. Many more.
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And then you might also hear.
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Me talking about resources.
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So these are collections of assets
that can be used to help create.
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A MegaEdit product.
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There are several forms of assets
available for Invent,
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including backgrounds, clipart, fonts.
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Spot colors and many more.
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We're going to begin
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by navigating to the resource tab
of the Invent plugin within.
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Our Adobe InDesign window.
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From here, click on Add.
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A resource set
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and that will pop up a separate window
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with the different resource sets
that you can add.
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In this case, we're going to.
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Choose a clipart set.
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So clipart sets
or cliparts can be used as.
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Extra design elements on a product,
either as a fixed asset on the design
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or as options for users to select
from when personalizing their mega.
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Edit. Products.
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Creating a clipart set
allows you to create a container
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to upload all of the image files
you want to make available.
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These then get created
and included as a clipart category
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and the clipart within
it are placed inside Infigo.
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Once they are.
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Imported, so we'll enter a name for our.
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clipart set.
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And then we'll choose the.
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Accessibility level.
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So we can make this clip set available
to both administrators and.
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Users.
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So this is if we want the users
to be able to
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to add these clipart to our.
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To our product,
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or we can make them administrator only.
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So this is if you. Need these.
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Resources whilst creating the templates,
but you don't want your users
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to access them.
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Then it's simply a case of hitting
add images or PDFs
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that will open up
a separate search window.
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In which you can locate the files
that you want
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to add.
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Select the files to add.
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Click on Open and they will be uploaded.
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And added to this resource.
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We can then click on Save to confirm.
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The clipart set
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and you'll see that is now available
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in our resource section of the Invent plugin.
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So next we're going to create a variable
which we're going to link to this.
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clipart set. So we're going to go.
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Across to our variables
tab within the Infigo Invent.
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Plugin
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and then we're going to.
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Click on add variable.
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Similar interface.
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So it comes up with the different types.
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Of variable that we can create.
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And in this case we're going to.
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Create an image variable.
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So image variables
allow users to define a selected image.
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Via a form entry in mega.
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Edit The image selection
can be configured to.
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Allow things such.
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As user upload of images,
so existing resources in MegaEdit.
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So you can.
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Allow people to access.
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Things such as image. Albums
that they may have uploaded.
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You can access clip art sets
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and various of the settings
which I'll briefly walk
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through.
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We'll start off
by entering a variable name
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and then we specify
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the image options to control the images
available for selection.
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By the end user.
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So these are the options down here.
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The selected options
show some of the available functionality
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for controlling
image use via this variable.
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And I'll give you an explanation
of a few of these.
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So first of all, we have it required.
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So that's fairly
self-explanatory is whether.
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Choosing an image is mandatory.
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We have allow media album selection,
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so if enabled, the user can select
previously uploaded.
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Media within MegaEdit.
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So this is not just media
that's directly linked to this template.
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We can allow image upload.
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So if enabled users can upload
new media files
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from this form entry.
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And we have allow clip art resources.
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So there's two options
that one is to allow all clip.
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Art albums.
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Or you can select individual clip.
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art albums to allow.
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So this allows you to select resources
specified within this.
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Invent template.
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Selecting one.
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Resource set will give you access to all.
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Of the.
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Resources
within that particular resource set.
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So for example, we.
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Created a clip. Art resource.
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Which was this clip art set example.
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If I activate that,
that will give this variable access
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to those options to
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those available entries.
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Scrolling down a little bit,
we also have the ability to specify
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some of the transformation options.
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That we want the end user to either be.
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Able or not be able to do.
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These are allowing.
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Translations,
allowing the scale of an image or.
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Allowing rotation.
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If you don't want the user to be able to.
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Do any of these things.
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You can simply uncheck those boxes.
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And we also can select
the default resource.
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So we've specified up here the resources.
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That we have access to, but if there.
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Is a default resource required,
so the initial image
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that you want to use,
we can select. It in here.
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So this is from our clipart set.
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Example,
which is the only. One that we've enabled.
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And then I can.
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Choose from the.
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Images that are within that clip set.
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I can then click Save.
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To confirm the variable.
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The next thing we want to do
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is to actually configure
the image field itself to utilize.
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The resource and variables
that we've already created.
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So to start off with will select
an image field.
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On our. Canvas.
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The example I've got here.
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Is the back of a business. Card
and I've got an.
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Image field
which is covering the entire canvas.
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If I come over to the properties
tap within.
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Invent, you can see that that.
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Is an image frame
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and I can click enable to make.
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That dynamic within Infigo Invent.
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So options will appear.
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Allowing. You to customize.
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Image settings and general settings.
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So these two tabs here, image settings
allow.
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Modifications to be made or enabled
and disabled in the selected image.
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So we'll cover that more in this tutorial.
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General settings
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cover modifications
of the image background
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as well as additional restrictions
such as disabling field deletion
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and configuring transformation commands.
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So generally speaking,
they control the frame itself,
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whereas the image options.
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Control
the image that is within the frame.
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In order to dynamically change
the image from our MegaEdit editor,
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we need to map the image field to either
a specific variable.
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Or a specific resource set.
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In our example,
we're going to link it to our created.
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Image.
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Variable and we begin by coming down here
to the image options.
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Mapped section.
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And selecting variable.
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From the type dropdown list.
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So you have the option to not.
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Link this. To anything at all.
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You can link it to.
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A variable or you can do it
directly, link it to a resource set.
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With the variable
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will type selected a new field appears
which is named variable.
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From here you can select between
accessible variables in.
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The Invent template.
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And ones that are applicable to the image.
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Frame that you have selected.
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There are some additional effects options
that we can
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apply to this particular image
within the image frame.
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So for example, the image positioning,
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if has any additional effects
or opacity changes, we can put those here.
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And if we scroll.
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Down to the bottom, you'll see
there's also some additional constraints.
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So constraint options allow you
to select the level of modification a.
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User has over the selected image fields.
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So for example,
we could allow image flipping, we.
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Could allow. Stretching.
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to allow effects.
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Adjustment.
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So these will all directly control
what the end user.
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Is able to do with this particular frame.
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They can be customized further.
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Once this is placed into. MegaEdit.
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This is just allowing you to configure it
within
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InDesign.
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Once we've made all of these changes,
we're going to go ahead and export
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this template.
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As a MEX file.
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So if we go to the export tab,
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it's giving us a summary
of what is configurable.
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Within our artwork.
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We specify. An export. File.
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And then we start the validations.
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Any problems will be displayed,
which we might have to repair.
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And then we're going to be able
to export that
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particular document.
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With that file successfully created,
I'm now going to navigate to
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the MegaEdit product.
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On our Infigo admin.
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Area.
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The easiest way to get to
this is to search in the menu.
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Here for MegaEdit.
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Products.
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If you haven't got anything
listed in here already,
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then you will need to convert
one of your stock products to.
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A MegaEdit product
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and that is covered in a different.
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Tutorial.
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In this case, I'm just going to modify.
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One of our existing MegaEdit products
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with the edit icon on the right hand side.
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But what I want to do is to update the.
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MEX file that is being utilized.
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So in this particular case, it’s
already using.
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A MEX File.
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If I come up to the top.
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Right of this particular page,
you can see I've got a MEX import
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and here I can override
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and re-upload a new version of that file.
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So the import is finished.
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So now I'm.
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Just going to launch
that particular product.
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Now a created image
variable is shown on the right.
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Hand side of your.
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Screen with a few. Different options.
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So one of those is edit.
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So this gives you the option to perform
some transformations.
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On that particular. Image.
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In this case, we've disabled.
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Those options, so we're fairly limited.
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We've got Select Image, which allows us
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to actually choose the image
that we want to display.
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In this case. We've got both. Images and.
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clipart, so I can go to either
one of those options.
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However, we can restrict that either.
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In our InDesign configuration or once.
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We've uploaded it to MegaEdit.
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In this case,
I'm going to choose clipart.
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And just change it
to one of my other designs.
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You see, by selecting
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that, it's now been placed on my artwork.
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And I also have the ability to.
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Remove.
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So again. This is something we can limit.
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In terms of what the end user can. Do.
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I could quick remove and it.
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Would remove
that particular image from that image
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frame.
