Dynamic Art. User Guide

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1 User Guide

2 Contents 1. Copyright Notice About the Dynamic Art plug-in Why Use Dynamic Art? The Dynamic Art Palette Dynamic Art on the Canvas Working with Dynamic Art Create a Dynamic Art Object Viewing and Navigating to Dynamic Art Fill Type Objects with Dummy Text Edit and Delete Dynamic Art Objects Define Advanced IPC XML Properties for Type Art Use Locale Variables for Type Elements Export XML Template...11 ii

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5 2 2. About the Dynamic Art plug-in What is dynamic art? The Dynamic Art plug-in allows you to quickly tag the placeholder type objects, table objects and barcodes that you created in your Illustrator design as Dynamic Art objects. Any object that will receive its final textual content at a later stage in the design process, based on the content in an XML file, can be turned into a Dynamic Art object. Empty text objects added to the Dynamic Art palette are automatically filled with dummy text; you cannot have an empty dynamic text object. If you create a text object in Illustrator with your own text, than that text is added to the Dynamic Art palette as soon as you convert it to a dynamic object. All Dynamic Art objects you create in an Adobe Illustrator document are listed in the Dynamic Art palette. Dynamic Art objects are saved in the Illustrator document. This allows one designer to define Dynamic Art objects, then pass the file on to other designers. These people can then use the same Dynamic Art objects to link in the final content. 5

6 3 Dynamic Art 3. Why Use Dynamic Art? Dynamic Art is used in a Dynamic Content workflow. Dynamic Content is an Esko plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that allows you to link content from an external XML file to objects (type, tables, barcodes, Illustrator symbols, and external images) in the Illustrator document. The suggested workflow for using Dynamic Art in combination with Dynamic Content is the following: Phase Description 1 The designer creates a design in Adobe Illustrator. In the design, dummy or placeholder objects are placed where dynamic content will be linked later on in the production process. These objects can be: type objects created with the Illustrator Type tools; barcodes created with the Esko Dynamic Barcodes plug-in; nutritional and other tables created with the Esko Dynamic Tables plug-in; Illustrator symbols; External images. 2 Once the design is finalized, the designer selects all the placeholder objects and adds them to the Dynamic Art palette. 3 Later in the production process, the brand owner supplies the approved textual content for the design, in the form of an XML file. 4 Using the Esko Dynamic Content plug-in, the designer adds the XML content file to the Illustrator document and Auto Links the content if possible, or links them manually to the corresponding content from the XML file. The file is now ready for final approval and for the next steps in the production process. 6

7 4 4. The Dynamic Art Palette The Dynamic Art palette can be opened by choosing Window > Esko > Dynamic Art. Figure 1: Components of the Dynamic Art palette A. Filter buttons: from left to right, these are Show All Dynamic Art, Show Barcode Art, Show Table Art, Show Type Art, Show Image Art, and Show Symbol Art. B. Dynamic Art list. The third item, a Dynamic Table called US Standard Bilingual, is currently selected. C. Select and zoom to object button. D. New Dynamic Art button. E. Delete Dynamic Art button. 7

8 5 Dynamic Art 5. Dynamic Art on the Canvas By default, Dynamic Art highlights the Dynamic Art objects on the Illustrator canvas that you have added to the Dynamic Art palette. The highlight takes the form of a colored box around the object, with a heading that represents the type of object. 8

9 6 6. Working with Dynamic Art 6.1 Create a Dynamic Art Object 1. If it is not yet visible, choose Window > Esko > Dynamic Art to display the Dynamic Art palette. 2. On the Illustrator canvas, select the object you want to add as a Dynamic Art object. 3. Click the New Dynamic Art button at the bottom of the palette. The object is converted into a Dynamic Art object: it is listed in the Dynamic Art palette, and it is highlighted on the canvas. 6.2 Viewing and Navigating to Dynamic Art Dynamic Art provides more than just a list of Dynamic Art objects. You can: Select a specific Dynamic Art object in the document by clicking to the right of its entry in the Dynamic Art palette, similar to how you select an Illustrator layer in the Layers palette. Select a specific Dynamic Art object in the Dynamic Art palette and zoom to it by clicking the Select and zoom to object button at the bottom of the Dynamic Art palette. Filter the list of placeholder objects in the Dynamic Art palette by clicking the appropriate filter button at the top of the palette: Show Barcode Art Show Table Art Show Type Art Show Image Art Show Symbol Art 6.3 Fill Type Objects with Dummy Text To fill an existing Dynamic Art type object with Lorem Ipsum text, select the object in the Dynamic Art palette and choose Fill with Dummy Text from the fly-out menu. New empty type objects automatically get filled with Lorem Ipsum text when you make them Dynamic Art objects. 6.4 Edit and Delete Dynamic Art Objects To rename a Dynamic Art object, select it and do one of the following: double-click its entry in the Dynamic Art palette. Type a new name and click OK. choose Properties from the fly-out menu. Type a new name and click OK. 9

10 6 Dynamic Art Note: This only changes the name of the object in the Dynamic Art palette. It does not affect the text content of the object in the Illustrator document or the label name of the highlight canvas. To delete a Dynamic Art object, select the object in the Dynamic Art palette and either: choose Delete from the fly-out menu; or click the Delete button at the bottom of the palette. Note: This only deletes the Dynamic Art object. The original type, barcode or table object on the Illustrator canvas is not removed. 6.5 Define Advanced IPC XML Properties for Type Art For type objects that have been added to the Dynamic Art palette, you can provide some additional properties. You can: define the type of content from an IPC XML file that should be linked to this type object; and define the locale (for example "en-us" for US English) of the object for use in multilingual IPC files. If you set these properties, Dynamic Content will filter the list of available elements to only show the matching elements, further simplifying the task of the person linking the Dynamic Art objects to the XML content. 1. Double-click the type object in the Dynamic Art palette, or select the entry and choose Properties from the fly-out menu. 2. Select the appropriate CopyElement type and sub-type. 3. Select the appropriate locale as a combination of a language and a region Use Locale Variables for Type Elements If you are creating multi-region products, instead of assigning a specific locale to text objects, you can assign locale variables. This way, when you link an multilingual XML content file in Dynamic Content, the proper language is applied to the text objects. 1. In the Dynamic Art palette, select the type objects to assign a locale variable to and choose Properties from the fly-out menu. 2. In the Dynamic Art Options dialog box, check Assign a specific type of content to this art and choose the appropriate types for the data in the XML content file. Also, check the Assign a language to this art checkbox, and then choose A language variable. Enter a variable name (such as L1) in the appropriate field. Click OK. 3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for objects that will be in other languages, using variables L2 and L3 (for example). 4. You can now use Dynamic Content to map the locale variables, add the XML content file, and Auto Link so that the type objects are filled automatically with the correct text. See the Dynamic Content User Guide for more information. 10

11 7 7. Export XML Template The Export XML Template can be found in the Dynamic Art Panel. This feature collects user-defined parameters of Dynamic Art text objects as Locale, CopyContent type or Locale Variable. Then the IPC-XML file is exported, where each Dynamic Art text object will be represented by the IPC CopyContent elements with attributes coming from the collected parameters. This XML Template file can be easily used as a template for future filling by the real content. 11