Product as background in designer?

  • First, out of all the product designers I looked at this had the best mobile experience within the demo. Great job!

    When I create a template I don’t see anywhere to add a base product background. When I load up the designer from a product, that product image is not in the background, just a blank white space so there is no perspective on how other added elements would look. How does one provide a backdrop for the designer work area to be that of the product image?

    If I upload the product image into the template to be used as a backdrop by making it a “helper” and “locking” it in place I can use it as a backdrop but I would never want that image I uploaded to be in the list of images that the front end user can drag and drop into the scene. Additionally, I found that I can delete that image both in the back end template or on the product front end designer and it permanently deletes it from the template altogether but if the image was left inside the designer you are stuck with a spinner.gif in the middle of the template that you can’t get rid of. I would never want to let my visitors permanently modify the template from the front end…this feels like a pretty significant bug.

    Also, when I upload an image to the template, where is it stored? If I delete it, does it delete from my file system? Why not use wp-media vs creating possible duplicates? Same question but on the front end, if a shopper uploads images where are they stored and for how long. Is this dangerous in that my website could become full of images if someone wanted to abuse this?

    Also, it would be nice to have both the backdrop image of the product and a designated marqueuee area showing the maximum editable/printable region of that product. How does one provide that or should I photoshop that in?

    Shapes library, do we have control over what is and isn’t provided here?

    Is there documentation somewhere that answers all these questions, lol. Thx

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  • Plugin Author ibcl

    (@ibcl)

    Hello Philip!

    Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate it an we are looking forward to improve our plugin.

    • The template is created separately of the woocommerce product. At the moment of template creation it is not known to which product it will belong. So the link between template and product is made when the printq template is selected in product edit page.
    • The uploaded images (frontend and admin area) are stored in wp-media. So you can delete them whenever you want. When you load the frontend designer, you are still logged in with the account with which you uploaded the image. That’s why you see that uploaded image in the image gallery. Try to log in admin area and create a template, upload some images, assign that template to a product and open an incognito browser window( or logout ) and navigate to product frontend designer. You won’t see the images uploaded in admin area in the available images list. Indeed we found that there is a problem with images uploaded in frontend by non-logged users( they are visible to other non-logged users ), but we will release a fix within the next several days.
    • For the moment, the bleeding( some sort of maximum editable/printable region ) is not supported.
    • The shapes are stored in [wp-plugins-directory]/web-to-printq/assets/shapes . For each shape category there is a folder with it’s name and a png image with the same name and png extension. You can add/remove any shape from that folders, but they may be overwritten when you update the plugin
    Thread Starter pingram

    (@pingram3541)

    Thank you for your fast response. I did eventually get the product image as the background but not sure what I did for that to happen, initially it always loaded on the front end as a blank white canvas.

    The print area/bleed is pretty important, for example, printing on a circular item like a badge the image dimensions are rectangular and someone could submit a design where the text/image layers extend beyond the actual printable product area. Maybe a way to use another image or coord. to provide a mask for the printable area with a marquee border so it’s obvious to the shopper.

    For the shapes, it would be good to check for overrides in a theme struture just like templates files that way we can provide our own unique libraries that don;t get effected by future updates.

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