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🎉 GraFx Labs

GraFx Labs

GraFx Labs is a dedicated space where you can explore and validate experimental features. These capabilities are designed to test functional value and technical feasibility before becoming part of the core platform.

Warning

Features in GraFx Labs are experimental.
They can change or be removed at any time.
The goal is to validate and capture feedback from you.

✨ New

  • GraFx Labs environment to explore experimental capabilities.

GraFx Labs

GraFx Genie Product Image Creator

  • AI-powered image generation using state-of-the-art models.
  • Create new images based on on-brand assets from GraFx Media.
  • Image upscaling after generation.
  • Option to save generated assets locally or directly to GraFx Media.

This tool enables you to quickly create high-quality product visuals, with or without starting from a predefined asset.

Existing brand-approved asset

Existing Asset

Augmented asset through a prompt

Augmented Asset

GraFx Genie Product Image Composer

  • Product shot composition builder.

  • Background selection from:

    • Device upload
    • GraFx Media (on-brand) assets
    • Prompt generation

  • Product image input from:

    • Device upload
    • GraFx Media (on-brand) assets
    • On-the-fly AI generation

  • User-friendly composition interface for positioning and layout.

This tool allows you to combine products and backgrounds into ready-to-use product shots in a controlled environment.

Existing on-brand asset

Existing product

Prompt for a background scene

Prompted background

Result

Resulting composition

Usage & Billing

  • Generated images are charged as digital PNG renders.

Roles

Subscription Admins, Environment Admins, and Template Designers have access to GraFx Labs as a controlled space to experiment with AI-powered image creation and product composition capabilities.

These features allow you to validate new workflows and creative possibilities before they become part of the standard CHILI GraFx platform.

AI in CHILI GraFx

See our Trust section for details on how AI is used in the platform.

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GraFx Publisher update

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This update improves PDF output stability under heavy processing by reducing font-related memory consumption.

Improvements

  • More stable PDF output under intensive processing: Improved font handling reduces peak memory usage during output generation, helping large or concurrent jobs complete more reliably.

Note

This update is rolled out progressively, starting with multi-tenant environments and then to eligible private cloud environments.

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GraFx Studio

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✨ New & Improved

Variable highlighting

When you build complex design systems with many variables, it can become a challenge to see where each variable is applied.

With variable highlighting, you can temporarily highlight a selected variable directly on the layout. This lets you instantly see every place it is used, so you can review, validate, and adjust with more confidence.

Variable highlighting

More informative media previews

Asset names are shown as tooltips in media-related panels, helping Design System creators pick the right asset faster when working with larger libraries.

Media name tooltip

Set color values in actions

You can now set color values directly in actions using supported color spaces such as RGB, Hex and CMYK.

This allows you to programmatically control colors across different output requirements, ensuring consistent on-screen and print styling when templates apply automated logic.

Set colors in actions

🐛 What’s Fixed

Smart Crop

Fixed Smart Crop behavior related to subject area settings in GraFx Media, resulting in more consistent image placement.

Undo stability improvements

Fixed several issues that could cause unexpected behavior when undoing actions, including cases involving deselecting frames.

Studio UI

  • Disabled the H shortcut for projects with constraints to prevent accidental conflicts while editing.
  • Improved stability for page offsets, reducing timing-related issues.
  • Fixed range constraint tooltip behavior to ensure the correct configuration is shown.

Render count & Quota

Fixed an issue where watermarked renders were displayed incorrectly.

Render display

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Environment API – Advanced PDF Postprocessing Controls

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✨ New & Improved

  • Added PDF version selection in postProcessing.pdfVersion (1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7), enabling explicit control over the generated PDF standard.

  • Added configurable color transformation in postProcessing.colorTransformation, allowing you to define:

  • intendedIccProfile

  • destinationIccProfile
    This enables precise control over color conversion behavior during PDF generation.

  • Added configurable Output Intent embedding via postProcessing.colorProfileEmbedding.iccProfile, allowing you to define the ICC profile embedded in the PDF.

Documentation

See Color Management

See Set conversion in Output Settings

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Gradient & Drop Shadow Support Improvements for Plugins

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These updates improve how gradients and drop shadows authored in desktop design tools are translated into GraFx Studio, preserving more creative intent while remaining fully compatible with Design Systems.

✨ New & Improved

Adobe InDesign Plugin

See Adobe InDesign Plugin

Gradients

  • Gradients can be applied to rectangles, triangles, and ovals.
  • Gradient rotation (angle) is supported.
  • Reverse gradient option is supported.

Drop Shadow

  • Supported on all object types: shapes, image frames, and text frames.

  • Fully supported parameters:

    • Opacity
    • Distance
    • Angle
    • Size (mapped to Blur in the GraFx Studio UI)
    • Global Light

  • InDesign-specific behavior:

    • X and Y Offset parameters are respected.
    • Drop shadow can only be applied to the Object (not Stroke, Fill, Text, or Graphics).

Note

In the InDesign plugin, only Linear gradient types and Classic gradient mode are supported. Radial, Reflected, Smooth, and other gradient types will be converted to a PDF for visual consistency.

Adobe Photoshop Plugin

See Adobe Photoshop Plugin

Gradients

  • Gradients can be applied to rectangles, triangles, and ovals.
  • Gradient rotation (angle) is supported.
  • Additional supported parameters:
    • Scale
    • Align with Layer
    • Reverse
  • Supported gradient type: Linear only.
  • Supported gradient method: Classic gradient mode only.

Drop Shadow - Supported on all object types: shapes, image frames, and text frames. - Fully supported parameters: - Opacity
- Distance
- Angle
- Size (mapped to Blur in the GraFx Studio UI)
- Global Light

🛠️ What's Fixed

Improved fidelity when translating gradient- and shadow-based designs into GraFx Studio.

  • Visual effects now retain more of their original structure and behavior from desktop applications, reducing manual rework after translation.

Note

In the Photoshop plugin, only Linear gradient types and Classic gradient mode are supported. Radial, Reflected, Smooth, and other gradient types or methods are not supported in this release.

Warning

When a Drop Shadow is present, a warning message is always displayed. Unsupported Drop Shadow parameters include Spread, Blend Mode, and Noise.

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Environment API Multi-File PDF Output

✨ New & Improved

  • Added maxRecordsPerFile control in the Environment API — split large batch jobs into multiple PDF files.
  • Enabled parallel rendering for PDF outputs, increasing throughput and reliability.
    See your tenant Swagger for details:
    https://[yourtenant]/grafx/swagger/index.html#/Output/post_api_v1_environment__environment__output_pdf

🛠️ What's Fixed

  • Updated internal handling of large and complex data sources to improve stability across distributed workers.
    Note: We’re continuing to harden resilience across all combinations of settings and data sizes. Extremely aggressive configurations (e.g., very low maxRecordsPerFile values against very large Google API datasets) may still encounter upstream limits such as rate limiting.

Outcome

You can now partition and render large PDF exports with predictable file sizes and parallel execution via the Environment API, enabling higher-volume processing with increased operational flexibility.

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Environment API update

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✨ New & Improved

  • Improved reliability when updating templates concurrently
    When multiple updates to the same template happen at the same time, saves are now handled sequentially. This ensures that templates are stored consistently and prevents incomplete or conflicting updates.

  • Improved readability of error reports
    Error report records are now returned in a predictable, human-friendly order. This makes it easier to review results and match errors to input records, especially when processing many items in parallel.

🛠️ What's Fixed

  • Fixed issues with overlapping template updates
    Simultaneous save operations no longer risk leaving templates in an inconsistent or partially updated state.

API Reference

See info on Environment API

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Image constraints, list controls, and text stability improvements

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GraFx Studio

✨ New & Improved

  • Added constraints for image frames
    You can now constrain resizing, movement, and rotation for image frames.

See: Concept of constraints
See: Image frame constraints

Constraints

  • Added character style support for numbered lists.
    Character style can be applied to number style (format and symbol after number) for numbered list inside paragraph style.

  • Added keyboard shortcuts for list level control.
    You can increase or decrease levels in bullet and numbered lists using keyboard shortcuts.

  • Added predefined formatting for four numbered list levels.
    Each level now has its own formatting. The fourth level no longer inherits from the first and uses a dedicated number format and symbol.

🛠️ What's Fixed

  • Fixed inconsistent behavior when applying subscript and superscript
    across inline, paragraph, and character styles.

  • Fixed text frame content replacement issues
    that could result in unexpected text behavior.

  • Fixed aspect ratio restrictions being applied when the object was disabled.

  • Fixed text frame resizing when auto-grow was enabled.

  • Fixed incorrect positioning of newly created frames.

Studio UI

✨ New & Improved

  • Support for image frame constraints
    The Studio UI now reflects and enforces image frame constraints defined in GraFx Studio.

🛠️ What's Fixed

  • Fixed validation when projectId is optional
    to prevent incorrect parameter errors.

  • Fixed layout shift when a date picker displays an error message.

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Platform Deployment Improvements & UI Fixes

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✨ New & Improved

Platform

  • Environment settings available at environment level.
    Environment-specific settings are now also available via a gear icon in the left navigation panel (bottom).

  • Added copyable technical environment name.
    A new input field in Environment Settings allows you to easily copy the technical name for use in integrations, APIs, and configuration.

  • Updated GraFx Studio versioning display.
    Version numbers now follow the format major.minor.x, reducing visual noise and focusing on meaningful updates.

Version number display

🛠️ What's Fixed

Platform

  • Fixed role handling for EA + CA users.
    Users with combined EA and CA roles are now correctly redirected to the template page.

  • Improved template import error handling.
    Upload failures during template import now have clearer error reporting.

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Text columns

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✨ New & Improved

Text frame Columns

  • Added text columns for text frames.

You can now split a text frame into columns and control the spacing between them.

This makes it easier to build editorial-style layouts and structured text blocks within a single frame, while keeping all existing auto-resize and overflow behavior intact for scalability.

See how to set up Text Columns

🛠️ What's Fixed

  • Fixed character style behavior when no font family is set.

When a character style has its font family set to [None], the font-style dropdown is now empty and disabled.