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Text Stroke & Smarter Studio Controls

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✨ New & Improved

GraFx Brand Kits

  • Added text stroke option for Paragraph and Character styles

Add stroke to your Paragraph and Character styles

Studio

  • Brand Kit importer supports text stroke
  • New option to restrict proportions to layout settings
  • Add support for constrain proportions (Studio UI)
  • Help text for media connector configuration options
  • Show resizing cursor when hovering on frame borders
  • Performance improvement for templates with a large number of variables
  • Improvement for AllLayouts view (Studio UI)

🛠️ What's Fixed

Studio & Studio UI

  • Fix for clearing min and max size in image upload
  • Fix for mediaConnector.download call
  • Fix for output and missing blend modes
  • Fix for layer fill color when resetting overrides
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GraFx Studio UI – Upload and Browse assets

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✨ What’s New

Upload and Browse assets simultaneously

End users can now both upload and browse assets through Image Variables.

This feature is active for GraFx Media. Template designers can configure image variables to support both browse and upload functionalities. Directories in GraFx Media for upload and browsing can both be configured for the same variable.

Browse and Upload assets through variables in GraFx Media
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✨ Improved

  • Improvements for Form Builder.

🛠 Fixes

  • Resolved issue in Studio UI where removing the backButton from options, the download popup doesn't line up with the button.
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🎉 CHILI GraFx Release Notes

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✨ Improved

  • Add option to remove styles from Brand Kits
  • Improvements for mobile view
  • Speed and reliability improvements
  • Improved SDK for integration

🛠️ What's Fixed

  • Bugfix for media folders with specific name
  • Implement correct defaults for form builder
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GraFx Genie Vision

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Good to know

These changes will only have impact on new assets, or on assets that have never been processed before

✨ What’s New

  • Recognition of more contextual objects such as houses and buildings

🛠️ What's Improved

  • Person detection
  • Removed Logo detection to get rid of false positives
  • Eye detection improvements for better POI performance for persons

📚 Refresh your knowledge on Smart Crop

See Smart Crop concept pages

See Smart Crop how to pages

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Introducing: GraFx Brand Kits

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Define your visual identity once: media, colors, fonts, character styles and paragraph styles. Apply it everywhere in GraFx Studio for lightning-fast, on-brand template creation.

See GraFx Brand Kits

GraFx Studio

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✨ What’s New

✍️ Text & Fonts

  • Text stroke. Add crisp outlines with rounded joins, perfectly rendered in editor and PDF.

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  • Indic-language support. Hello World to Devanagari (and friends).

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⚡ Designer Productivity

  • Sticky variable settings. Rename variables without losing the settings panel.

🔧 Under the Hood

  • Translatable strings auto-extracted from templates.
  • Canvas repaint refactor for smoother visuals.

🐛 Fixes & Polish

  • Name always included on Save As.
  • Stroked text keeps its position in PDFs.
  • No orphan style refs after Undo.
  • Template previews now consistently match final output.
  • Various performance improvements and other bug fixes.

Happy creating! 🎨

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🎉 GraFx Studio Release Notes

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✨ What’s New

Studio

  • 🌏 Support Indic languages
    Full support for Indic scripts (e.g., Hindi), with correct shaping and rendering for complex characters.

  • 🖼️ Improvements for per-asset crop
    Refined cropping interface for individual assets, making custom cropping more precise and previews more reliable.

  • 🗂️ Improvements for metadata mapping pop-up
    Enhanced modal with fixed scrollbar and better navigation for mapping asset metadata fields.

  • 🎨 Show color name and value in color picker
    The color picker now displays both the color’s name and hex value, assisting users in verifying and selecting precise colors.

  • 👁️‍🗨️ Show/Hide multiple frames at once
    Select and toggle visibility for multiple frames at the same time for faster, easier canvas management.

  • 🏷️ Stylekit becomes a Brand Kit
    “Stylekit” is now “Brand Kit” throughout the app.

  • 💡 Add tooltips in Run mode
    Contextual tooltips appear in Run mode, providing inline help for users reviewing or editing documents.

  • 📝 Add placeholder input field for multiline variable
    Multiline variable fields now show placeholder text, clarifying where to input content.

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

  • ✨ Fix for auto grow
    Text and variable fields expand smoothly as content is entered, ensuring a fluid editing experience.

  • 📐 Fix for layout size in actions
    Layout sizes are now correctly handled during automated actions and scripting.

  • ⏱️ Fix for animation timeline
    Timeline bugs are resolved, delivering accurate keyframe placement and playback.

  • 🖼️ Fix for min, max value in image upload
    Upload validation now reliably enforces minimum and maximum image dimensions and size constraints.

  • 🏷️ Fix for collapsed whitespaces in frame name
    Frame names always display correctly, even with collapsed spaces.

🖥️ Studio UI

  • 🔢 Min and max help text for layouts
    Layout controls now display guidance on allowed min/max values for dimensions and other parameters.

  • 🌐 Variables and layouts translations
    Variable and layout names can be localized, making template UIs accessible in multiple languages.

  • ↔️ Supporting RTL (right to left)
    The UI, variable fields, and layouts now support right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

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GraFx Publisher

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✨ Improvements

  • Enhanced Back-office > Move operations for faster and more reliable folder / file relocations.

🛠 Fixes

  • Corrected an issue in which the Tree Level limit was not applied as expected.
  • Resolved a problem with Google Sheets data-source authentication that could prevent the connector from loading data.