Layouts

Layouts allow you to offer alternative designs for a product template without creating separate products. Each layout is a complete canvas definition — including text boxes, image zones, dimensions, and bleeds — that customers can apply to swap out the current design while preserving their entered content. Layouts are organized into categories, and each category can contain multiple individual layout files.

You can configure layouts to autofill a customer's text and images when switching to a new layout, so they do not lose any data entry. Layouts can also be configured to allow backgrounds to be swapped out.

View Layout Categories

1. From your Unified Admin, go to Print Editor > Layouts.
2. The page displays all layout categories with a search panel. You can toggle between List view and Grid view using the tabs in the upper right.
3. To add a new category, click the Add Layout button.

List View Columns

Grid View

The grid view displays layout categories as cards with a thumbnail preview, name, and image count. Each card has a three-dot menu with the same actions available in the list view. Click Items from the menu to navigate to the category's layout items page.

Category Actions

Add/Edit Layout Category

1. Click Add Layout to create a new category, or click Edit from the action menu on an existing category.
2. A dialog appears with the following fields:

3. Click Save to create or update the category.

Manage Layout Items

Expand a layout category row in the list view, or click Items from the grid view menu, to see all individual layouts within that category.

Inner Layout Columns

Add Layout File

1. Click the Add button above the inner layout grid.
2. The Add File dialog appears. Acceptable file types for layouts are PDF and IDML (Adobe InDesign Markup Language) only.
3. Click Select File to choose a file, then click Upload.
4. The uploaded file is parsed and a new layout is created with all canvas objects (text boxes, image zones, dimensions, and bleeds) extracted from the file.

Edit Layout Item

1. Click Edit from the action menu on any layout item row.
2. The edit dialog appears with the following fields:

3. Click Save to apply changes.

Delete Layout Item

1. Click Delete from the action menu on any layout item row.
2. A confirmation dialog appears: "Are you sure you want to delete?"
3. Confirming removes the layout from the category.

Drag-and-Drop Reordering

Both layout categories and individual layout items support drag-and-drop reordering:

• Categories: Drag rows in the list view to change the display order of layout categories. The new order is saved automatically.
• Layout items: Drag rows within the expanded inner grid to reorder layouts within a category. The new order is saved automatically.

The display order determines how layouts appear to customers in the Print Editor sidebar.

Template Data (Import/Export)

The Template Data dialog allows you to transfer layout templates between storefronts or back up layout configurations.

1. Click Template Data from the action menu on any layout category.
2. Choose one of the following options:

3. For imports, click Select File to choose a .pn file, then click Import.
4. For exports, click Export to download the file.

Associations

Print Editor

Print Store

Related Pages

• Products — assign layout categories to products via the Template Assets section
• Background Themes — background images that can be swapped when applying layouts
• Elements — clipart groups also assigned as product design assets
• Editor Themes — controls the editor interface where layouts appear in the sidebar