Design Studio
v1.0.0Overview
A small artwork editor inside your own site. The customer picks a starting layout — business card, folded card, flyer, envelope, sticker, roll-up — and edits it on a canvas drawn at the finished size, with the bleed and the safe area already marked, so nothing drifts into the trim without them seeing it. What comes out is saved against the job and then measured exactly like a file someone sent in: nothing is waved through because it happened to be made here. It runs entirely inside your installation, needs no account of any kind, and calls no outside service.
What it attaches to
An add-on extends an app you already run, and is never deployed on its own. This one attaches to:
What connecting lets it do
Switched on, it may read the job it is designing for and write the design and its preview into your file store. It reaches nothing outside your installation, so there is no key to keep and nothing to sign in to.
Inside your own installation
- Read the job it is working on
- Write files into your file store
Addresses its server code may reach
None. It reaches nothing outside your own installation.
What it needs to connect
Nothing to connect
What it adds
Where it appears 2
- The artwork step, where a customer chooses how to send a design
- Its own panel under Add-ons in the dashboard settings
Tables it brings 1
- artwork_designs
Settings you configure 2
- Starting layouts customers may use
- A design still needs a proof
If you switch it off
Disconnecting removes an add-on’s surfaces. It never drops the tables it created, deletes the files it wrote, or removes the rows it added — everything it wrote stays in your database.
What stays
Designs your customers made stay in the database, and their preview files stay in your file store.
What goes
The editor leaves the artwork step and its panel leaves the dashboard. Sending a file works exactly as it did before, with no button left behind.
About the demo
No demo on this site makes a real call to anyone else’s service. Every add-on ships a stand-in transport that answers from built-in data, and it is on by default. Real credentials are a self-host choice, described in the add-on’s own README.
How to switch it on In the demo, switch to the Print shop side, open Add-ons and turn Design Studio on — then start a job and go to the artwork step.