Artwork

Build a categorized library of reusable artwork designs that customers can browse and drop into their designs from the Print Editor.

Artwork is a library of pre-built, reusable designs that customers can add to their own work in the Print Editor. Where a layout replaces the entire canvas, a piece of artwork is placed onto the current design — a logo lockup, a decorative motif, a pre-styled text treatment, or any arrangement of text, shapes, and images you've designed in advance. Artwork is organized into categories, and each category is assigned to the products where it should appear.

Customers reach artwork through the Print Editor's unified Elements panel, alongside cliparts and images. They browse the categories assigned to the product, open one, and click or drag a piece of artwork to add it to their canvas.

Artwork is available in the Advanced Editor only. Products using the Simple Editor don't show the Artwork panel.

Access

Artwork is managed from the Unified Admin under Print Editor > Artwork. Access is controlled per role — an administrator can grant or restrict the Artwork screen for each role from the role's screen permissions.

The page lists your artwork categories and offers two tabs in the upper right — List view and Grid view. Two buttons sit in the header:

Import — import a .pn archive of categories and artwork (see Importing & Exporting).
Add Category — create a new artwork category.

Artwork Categories

Artwork is grouped into categories. A category is the unit that gets assigned to products, and it holds the individual pieces of artwork customers can apply.

List View Columns

Column	Description
Id	The category ID. Click the expand arrow to reveal the individual artwork within the category. Rows can be dragged to reorder categories.
Thumbnail	Preview image for the category. Falls back to the first piece of artwork in the category when no thumbnail is set.
Name	The display name of the category. This name appears to customers in the Print Editor's Artwork panel.
Description	Optional description of the category for administrative reference.
Artworks	The number of artwork items in the category.
Action	Menu with Edit, Export, and Delete options.

Category Actions

Action	Description
Edit	Opens a dialog to change the category Name and Description.
Export	Downloads the category and all its artwork as a `.pn` archive for transfer to another storefront.
Delete	Removes the category. If it contains artwork, the confirmation notes how many pieces will be deleted along with it.

Grid View

The grid view shows categories as cards with a thumbnail, name, and artwork count, each with the same actions available in the list view.

Add or Edit a Category

Click Add Category (or Edit from a category's action menu) to open the category dialog:

Field	Description
Name	Required. The display name shown to customers in the editor's Artwork panel.
Description	Optional description for administrative reference.

Artwork Items

Expand a category in the list view to manage the individual pieces of artwork inside it. The inner toolbar adds two buttons:

New Artwork — creates an empty artwork in the category and opens it in the editor to design.
Import — imports a .pn archive or an Adobe InDesign .idml file into this category (see below).

Inner Columns

Column	Description
Id	The artwork ID. Rows can be dragged to reorder artwork within the category.
Preview	Thumbnail of the artwork design, regenerated automatically when the design is saved.
Name	The display name of the artwork.
Description	Optional description for administrative reference.
Size	The design's natural width and height, used to place it at a sensible size when a customer adds it.
Action	Menu with Edit in Editor, Edit metadata, Clone, Export, and Delete options.

Artwork Actions

Action	Description
Edit in Editor	Opens the artwork's design in the Print Editor to build or change it (see below).
Edit metadata	Opens a dialog to change the artwork's Name and Description.
Clone	Duplicates the artwork within the same category.
Export	Downloads the artwork as a `.pn` file for transfer to another storefront.
Delete	Removes the artwork after confirmation.

Designing Artwork in the Editor

Artwork designs are built in the Print Editor itself, the same way you edit a layout or template. Choosing New Artwork, or Edit in Editor on an existing piece, opens it in an artwork-edit mode: the product-specific tools (Products, Options, Layouts) are hidden, while text, images, elements, layers, and color tools remain available so you can compose the design. Saving stores the design and refreshes its thumbnail.

Because artwork is composed from the same building blocks as any other design, it has access to the store's fonts and color palettes — text a customer adds after placing artwork inherits the store's default font and palette.

Importing & Exporting

You can move artwork between storefronts or bring in designs from Adobe InDesign rather than building each piece by hand. What's accepted depends on where you import:

Where	Accepted files
Import button in the page header (root)	Only `.pn` archives. Categories in the archive are added as new top-level categories.
Import button inside a category	`.pn` archives or Adobe InDesign `.idml` files. Each page of an IDML file becomes a separate piece of artwork in that category.

To import an .idml file you must import into a category — IDML import isn't available at the root. Export is available both per category (Export in the category action menu) and per artwork (Export in the artwork action menu), producing .pn files. This is the same package format used for layout and template data.

Area	Effect
Elements panel	Artwork appears as a section of the unified Elements panel in the editor sidebar, alongside cliparts and images. When artwork is the only available element type for a product, the panel opens straight to it; otherwise the customer picks Artwork from the panel's list.
Browsing	The panel shows the artwork categories assigned to the product. Customers open a category to see a grid of artwork thumbnails, with a back arrow to step out to the panel root.
Applying artwork	Clicking or dragging a piece of artwork adds it to the customer's current design at its natural size. Unlike a layout, it does not replace the canvas — it's placed onto the existing design.
Availability	The Artwork panel only appears when the product has at least one artwork category assigned, the product uses the Advanced Editor, and the editor isn't itself in artwork-edit mode.

Layouts — full-canvas designs customers apply to swap their entire template
Elements — clipart groups shown alongside artwork in the unified Elements panel
Advanced Editor — the editor mode where the Artwork panel appears
Font Files and Color Pallets — assets available when designing artwork