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CHILI GraFx: Previews no longer counted as renders

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🐛 What's Fixed

Previews in GraFx Experience no longer inflate your render count

Renders are how CHILI GraFx measures usage against your subscription quota — one render for each output you generate. Previews are not output: they are the images GraFx Experience shows while you set up a project, for example the layout thumbnails you see after selecting layouts for a new project.

Until now, those previews were counted as production renders, which over-reported usage and made render figures harder to reconcile with what was actually produced.

  • Fixed template previews being counted as production renders. GraFx Experience now generates layout and template-page previews through dedicated preview endpoints that fall outside render counting.
  • Fixed preview activity being reported as Image output. Previews were never a downloadable image, so the output-type breakdown in your renders overview now reflects real production only.

Project previews still count

Previews of a project are generated through the regular output routines, using the Output Settings configured in GraFx Experience — so they count as renders like any other output. If you'd rather not have them count towards your quota, configure those Output Settings to apply a watermark. Watermarked output is tracked as its own category and is not billed.

More info

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