What's New in CHILI GraFx

Richer Visual Effects: Improved Gradient & Drop Shadow Support in GraFx Studio Plugins

Bring more of your creative intent from Adobe® tools straight into GraFx Studio! The latest plugin improvements deliver stronger support for gradients and drop shadows, helping designs translate more faithfully while staying fully compatible with Design Systems and scalable templates.

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Design with Confidence: More Accurate Visual Translation

Gradients and shadows are essential for depth, hierarchy, and polish. These updates ensure that when designs move from desktop tools into GraFx Studio, they retain their visual structure and behavior – reducing manual fixes and speeding up production.

The result: cleaner imports, predictable templates, and less rework for Template Designers and production teams.

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Adobe® InDesign® Plugin: Gradients and Shadows That Stay True

Learn more: https://docs.chiligrafx.com/GraFx-Studio/convert/Adobe-InDesign/

Enhanced Gradient Support

Gradients authored in Adobe® InDesign® now translate with greater accuracy:

• More Shape Coverage: Apply gradients to rectangles, triangles, and ovals.
• Rotation Preserved: Gradient angles are respected during import.
• Reverse Gradients Supported: Maintain intended light and color direction.

To ensure consistency, GraFx Studio supports Linear gradients in Classic gradient mode. Other gradient types are automatically converted to PDF to preserve visual fidelity.

Drop Shadows with Predictable Behavior

Drop shadows from InDesign now carry over with robust parameter support:

• Works Across Objects: Shapes, image frames, and text frames.
• Key Parameters Preserved: Opacity, distance, angle, size (mapped to Blur in the GraFx Studio UI), and global light.
• InDesign-Specific Accuracy: X and Y offsets are respected, ensuring shadows land exactly where intended.

This means more depth and realism in your templates – without surprises after import.

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Adobe® Photoshop® Plugin: Cleaner Effects, Smoother Imports

Learn more: https://docs.chiligrafx.com/GraFx-Studio/convert/Adobe-Photoshop/

Gradient Improvements for Layered Designs

Photoshop gradients now translate with improved clarity and control:

• Supported Shapes: Rectangles, triangles, and ovals.
• Rotation & Direction: Gradient angles are preserved.
• Additional Controls Supported: Scale, align with layer, and reverse.
• Consistent Standards: Linear gradients in Classic gradient mode ensure predictable output.

Reliable Drop Shadows Across All Objects

Drop shadows are supported on shapes, image frames, and text frames, with faithful translation of:

• Opacity
• Distance
• Angle
• Size (Blur)
• Global Light

A clear warning is shown when drop shadows are present, keeping Template Designers informed about any unsupported parameters.

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Why This Matters: Less Rework, More Control

These improvements focus on what matters most in high-volume and automated workflows:

• Higher Fidelity Imports: Visual effects retain more of their original structure.
• Faster Template Readiness: Spend less time fixing gradients and shadows after import.
• Design-System Friendly: Effects remain compatible with scalable, controlled templates.

By preserving depth, contrast, and visual hierarchy from your Adobe® designs, GraFx Studio helps you move from creative concept to production-ready template faster – and with confidence.

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Keep your gradients smooth, your shadows sharp, and your workflows efficient with these latest GraFx Studio plugin enhancements 🚀

Scale Production with PDF Multi-File Output and Parallel Rendering via the Environment API

High-volume PDF generation just became faster, more flexible, and easier to control. With the latest Environment API enhancements, you can confidently handle large batch jobs by splitting outputs into predictable file sizes and rendering them in parallel – all designed for enterprise-scale automation.

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Break Large PDF Jobs into Manageable Files

When generating thousands of records in a single run, file size and processing limits can quickly become a bottleneck. The Environment API now gives you precise control over how PDF output is packaged.

• Controlled File Sizes with maxRecordsPerFile: Define how many records are included per PDF file, automatically splitting large batch jobs into multiple, easier-to-handle outputs.
• Operational Flexibility: Optimize PDFs for downstream systems, archiving, or distribution workflows without custom post-processing.
• Predictable Results at Scale: Large exports are no longer all-or-nothing – each file is generated with consistent limits you define.

This is ideal for transactional documents, catalog generation, or any scenario where volume and reliability matter.

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Faster Throughput with Parallel PDF Rendering

Speed matters when processing at scale. Parallel rendering is now enabled for PDF outputs via the Environment API.

• Higher Throughput: Multiple PDF files are rendered simultaneously, significantly reducing total processing time for large jobs.
• Improved Reliability: Distributed rendering helps balance load across workers, making high-volume output more resilient.
• Built for Automation: Perfect for scheduled jobs, integrations, and continuous production pipelines.

You can explore the available options directly in your tenant’s Swagger documentation:

https://[YOURTENANT]/grafx/swagger/index.html#/Output/post_api_v1_environment__environment__output_pdf

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Stability Improvements for Complex Data Sources

Behind the scenes, internal handling of large and complex data sources has been strengthened to support distributed rendering more reliably.

• More Robust Worker Coordination: Better stability when processing complex or data-heavy jobs.
• Improved Resilience at Scale: Ongoing hardening ensures consistent behavior across a wide range of configurations and data sizes.

Note: Extremely aggressive configurations – such as very low maxRecordsPerFile values combined with very large external datasets – may still encounter upstream limits like API rate limiting.

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What This Means for You

With multi-file PDF output and parallel execution, the Environment API now empowers you to:

• Process larger volumes with confidence
• Maintain predictable PDF sizes
• Reduce turnaround time for batch exports
• Design more resilient, scalable output workflows

Whether you’re powering automated document generation or enterprise-grade publishing, these enhancements give you the control and performance needed to scale without compromise 🚀

Rock-Solid Template Updates: Environment API Reliability Improvements

Build and scale with confidence using the latest Environment API improvements. This update focuses on reliability, clarity, and predictability – especially for teams running high-volume, parallel operations across templates and environments.

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Reliable Template Updates – Even Under Heavy Load

When multiple processes update the same template at the same time, consistency is critical. The Environment API now handles these situations with greater care, ensuring your data stays clean and trustworthy.

• Sequential Save Handling: Concurrent updates to the same template are now processed in order, preventing race conditions and incomplete saves.
• Consistent Template Storage: Every update is fully applied before the next begins, protecting templates from partial or conflicting changes.

This is especially valuable for automated workflows, batch processing, and integrations where templates are updated at scale.

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Clearer Error Reports for Faster Troubleshooting

Understanding what went wrong should never slow you down. Error reporting from the Environment API is now easier to read and easier to act on.

• Predictable Error Ordering: Error report records are returned in a consistent, human-friendly sequence.
• Easier Record Matching: Quickly map errors back to their original input records – even when processing many items in parallel.

The result: faster debugging, clearer logs, and smoother operations for developers and platform teams.

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Stability Fixes That Protect Your Templates

Behind the scenes, important fixes further strengthen API reliability:

• No More Overlapping Save Risks: Simultaneous template updates no longer leave templates in inconsistent or partially updated states.

These improvements reduce operational risk and help ensure every API-driven update delivers exactly what you expect.

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Explore the Environment API

Dive deeper into endpoints, behavior, and usage details in the official documentation:

• https://docs.chiligrafx.com/GraFx-Developers/environment-api/reference/

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With these Environment API enhancements, you can scale automation, integrations, and concurrent workflows with greater confidence and clarity – knowing your templates are always protected 🚀

Image Constraints, Smarter Lists, and more in GraFx Studio v1.37

Design with greater confidence and precision in GraFx Studio v1.37! This release delivers powerful new controls for image frames, smarter list styling, and important text stability improvements – all focused on protecting layouts, speeding up editing, and keeping templates predictable at scale.

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Lock It Down: New Constraints for Image Frames

Protect your designs from accidental edits and ensure consistent output across every user and channel. GraFx Studio now lets Template Designers apply constraints to image frames, giving you fine-grained control over how images behave inside templates.

• Controlled Resizing: Prevent unwanted stretching or scaling that can break carefully designed layouts.
• Restricted Movement: Lock image positions to maintain alignment and structure.
• Rotation Safeguards: Disable rotation where precision and brand consistency matter most.

These constraints are ideal for high-volume or self-serve templates, where design integrity must be preserved no matter who edits the content.

Learn more:

• https://docs.chiligrafx.com/GraFx-Studio/concepts/constraints/
• https://docs.chiligrafx.com/GraFx-Studio/guides/image-frame/#image-frame-constraints

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Smarter, Faster Lists: Enhanced Numbered and Bulleted List Controls

Lists just got more powerful and easier to manage – especially for content-heavy templates.

• Character Styles for Numbered Lists: Apply character styles directly to numbered list formats and symbols, giving you full typographic control and perfectly on-brand numbering.
• Keyboard Shortcuts for List Levels: Increase or decrease list levels instantly using keyboard shortcuts, making structured content faster to build and easier to refine.
• Improved Multi-Level Formatting: Four numbered list levels now come with predefined, independent formatting. The fourth level no longer inherits from the first, ensuring clarity and visual hierarchy even in complex documents.

The result: cleaner lists, faster editing, and better consistency across every template.

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Text You Can Trust: Stability and Overflow Protection

Text-heavy templates benefit from important safeguards that reduce surprises and layout issues.

• Maximum Text Length Enforcement: Text variables now respect defined length limits, preventing overflow and protecting layouts from breaking when content changes.
• More Reliable Text Behavior: Improvements ensure consistent handling when replacing text or working with auto-grow frames.

These updates help ensure your templates stay visually stable – even when populated dynamically or edited by non-designers.

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Polished Details: Fixes That Improve Everyday Workflows

GraFx Studio v1.37 also includes a wide range of fixes that quietly improve reliability and precision:

• Consistent Subscript and Superscript Styling: Uniform behavior across inline, paragraph, and character styles.
• Correct Frame Positioning: Newly created frames now appear exactly where expected.
• Accurate Aspect Ratio Handling: Aspect ratio restrictions no longer apply when an object is disabled.
• Smoother Auto-Grow Resizing: Text frames resize correctly when auto-grow is enabled.

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Studio UI Improvements: Constraints That Carry Through

The Studio UI now fully supports and enforces image frame constraints defined in GraFx Studio, ensuring the same rules apply during editing as during template design.

Additional UI fixes improve stability and polish:

• Cleaner Validation: Optional projectId values no longer trigger incorrect parameter errors.
• No More Layout Shifts: Date picker error messages no longer cause disruptive UI movement.

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GraFx Studio v1.37 is all about control without complexity – stronger guardrails for images, more expressive lists, and text behavior you can rely on. Build smarter templates, reduce rework, and deliver consistent, on-brand results every time 🚀

Smoother Platform Deployment and UI Fixes

Streamline your day-to-day platform management with the latest platform improvements! This update focuses on clarity, accessibility, and reliability, giving administrators and integrators better visibility, faster configuration, and clearer feedback when things matter most.

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Faster Access, Smarter Configuration at Environment Level

Managing environments just became more intuitive. Key environment settings are now easier to find and use, helping teams move faster and reduce friction.

• Environment Settings at Your Fingertips: Access environment-specific settings directly from a dedicated gear icon in the left navigation. No more hunting – critical configuration is always within reach.
• Copyable Technical Environment Name: A new input field lets you instantly copy the technical environment name, making integrations, API usage, and configuration tasks quicker and less error-prone.

These enhancements are designed to save time, reduce setup complexity, and support smoother collaboration between platform admins and technical teams.

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Clearer Versioning for Better Focus

The GraFx Studio version display has been refined to highlight what truly matters.

• Simplified Version Format: Version numbers now follow a clean major.minor.x structure, reducing visual noise and helping you quickly understand the significance of updates at a glance.

This makes it easier to communicate changes internally and stay aligned across teams.

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Reliability Improvements That Keep You Moving

Behind the scenes, important fixes ensure a more predictable and frustration-free platform experience:

• Accurate Role Handling: Users with combined EA and CA roles are now correctly redirected to the template page, eliminating confusion during navigation.
• Clearer Template Import Errors: When a template upload fails, improved error reporting provides clearer insight into what went wrong – so issues can be resolved faster.

Column Power: Effortless Multi-Column Text Layouts in GraFx Studio v1.36

Unlock editorial design excellence with GraFx Studio v1.36! Whether you're a Template Designer seeking modern magazine flair or a marketer building structured, scalable layouts, our newest release brings total control to your text blocks – all with familiar, intuitive tools.

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Multi-Column Text Frames: Transform Your Content in Seconds

Elevate your templates with beautifully structured text. You can now split text frames into multiple columns, achieving classic editorial looks, elegant data presentations, or simply a more organized vibe – all within a single frame:

• True Flexibility: Choose the number of columns that suits your layout, from streamlined two-column spreads to detailed multi-column grids.
• Custom Spacing: Easily adjust the gap between columns for perfect visual rhythm and brand alignment.
• Seamless Scaling: Enjoy all existing auto-resize and overflow controls – columns adapt dynamically, maintaining design integrity across every scenario.
• Faster Editing: Reflow, balance, and update content with zero-copy, hassle-free workflow, speeding up magazine layouts, brochures, and info-rich templates.

Ready to start building with columns? See how to set up Text Columns in the official documentation

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Precision Improvements: Character Style Font Handling

GraFx Studio v1.36 also polishes your creative workflow with smart fixes:

• Character Style Clarity: If a character style uses the font family "[None]", the font-style dropdown is now empty and disabled. This prevents confusion and ensures you always know exactly how your text styles are behaving.

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Supercharge your editorial layouts, build smarter templates, and enjoy a smoother design experience with GraFx Studio v1.36! 🎉

Smarter Text Styling & Bulletproof Reliability: Numbered Lists and More in GraFx Studio v1.35

Unlock clarity, consistency, and enhanced reliability with GraFx Studio v1.35! This release delivers advanced list styling, upgraded error messaging, and valuable improvements for seamless integration and worry-free editing. Whether you're a Template Designer or integrating GraFx Studio into your workflow, you'll find new ways to create on-brand, professional content with confidence.

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Organize Content with Ease: Flexible Numbered Lists in Paragraph Styles

Say goodbye to manual formatting! Multi-level numbered lists are now built right into GraFx Studio paragraph styles, making it simple to present information, instructions, or features with clarity and precision.

• Multi-Level Support: Structure your content with up to nine levels of numbering for clean, organized layouts.
• Custom Formats: Pick the number format, add your own symbols, and fine-tune indents to match your brand and design guidelines.
• Consistent Branding: Apply numbered lists across your templates without losing cohesive styling or formatting control.

Ready to get started? Read the full guide on defining and using numbered lists.

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Enhanced List Controls: Bullet Icons That Match Your Brand

Take your bulleted lists to the next level! GraFx Studio now offers improved bullet rendering:

• Font Precision: Bullet icons automatically adopt the correct font from their assigned character style, ensuring on-brand typographic consistency.
• Smart Fallbacks: If you haven't set a character style for bullets (or set its font to None), GraFx Studio uses the paragraph style's font – so your lists always look just right.

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Clear Communication: Smart Error Messaging & Integration Tools

Working in complex environments or building advanced integrations? GraFx Studio v1.35 improves reliability and your ability to spot problems fast:

• Transparent Studio Loading Errors: If GraFx Studio hits a configuration or engine load snag, you'll get a clear in-app message so you know what to do next – no guesswork required!
• Empowering Integrators: The new onLoadError event enables integrators to listen for and analyze load failures (such as engine issues), supporting more robust automation and troubleshooting.
• Non-TypeScript Validation: Integrations that don’t use TypeScript benefit from added configuration validation. When an issue is detected, GraFx Studio halts loading and alerts you directly in the app and the browser console, so problems are never hidden.

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Plus: Productivity-Boosting Fixes & Refinements

GraFx Studio v1.35 includes several under-the-hood fixes and improvements to ensure smoother operation and a seamless user experience.

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Level up your text styling, rest easy with reliable error handling, and enjoy a smoother editing experience – all with GraFx Studio v1.35! 🚀

Seamless Transparency: Opacity Imports from Adobe® InDesign® & Photoshop® Now in GraFx Studio

Unlock perfect creative fidelity between your Adobe® workflows and GraFx Studio! With the newest enhancements to our Adobe® InDesign® and Adobe® Photoshop® plugins, importing professional layouts is now smoother than ever – preserving every layer with transparency and visual effect with precision.

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Effortless Opacity Import for Total Visual Consistency

Take the guesswork out of migration. GraFx Studio now automatically retains object opacity settings when you import designs from Adobe® InDesign® and Adobe® Photoshop® – guaranteeing that your templates look exactly as intended, every time.

• Across Every Element: Transparencies on shapes, text, and images are carried over, so gradients, faded objects, and overlays remain flawless.
• Respect for Layers & Blends: Multi-layer compositions and blend mode behaviors are faithfully translated, letting you maintain professional detail and vibrant depth across projects.
• Save Hours of Manual Fixes: Skip the tedious task of reapplying transparency or layering effects by hand – your creative context is preserved instantly upon import.

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Predictable Output, Polished Templates

Now, when moving creative assets from Adobe tools into GraFx Studio, you can trust that all visual dynamics – from subtle shading to bold overlays – stay intact. This means:

• Reliable Template Creation: Consistent transparency eliminates surprises, making automated output and brand templates visually predictable and on brand.
• Faster Workflows: Get started on production layouts in GraFx Studio right away, without fixing missed opacity settings.

Find all the details in our documentation:

• Learn about the Adobe® InDesign® plugin 1.1.0
• Explore the Adobe® Photoshop® plugin 0.3.0

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Seamlessly move your layered designs into GraFx Studio – and keep every subtlety, every effect, every time. Experience next-level compatibility and creative continuity today! ✨

Effortless Text Styling & Sharper Controls: Bulleted Lists and More in GraFx Studio v1.34

Elevate your template designs and streamline your workflow with GraFx Studio v1.34! The latest release introduces advanced text styling, smoother frame control, and enhanced HTML output options – all built to help you achieve professional, on-brand results faster and easier than ever.

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Create On-Brand Lists with Powerful Bulleted List Support

Bring extra polish and organization to your layouts! GraFx Studio v1.34 adds robust bulleted list support within paragraph styles. Now, Template Designers can easily define and apply bulleted lists that perfectly match your brand identity and design system.

• Unified Design: Seamlessly apply bulleted lists through paragraph styles, ensuring consistency across all layouts and campaigns.
• Tailored Visuals: Assign a character style to the bullet itself for total creative control – customize shape, size, and color so every list feels on brand.
• Effortless Editing: Manage list styling and layout centrally, saving time and ensuring accuracy across multiple projects.

For step-by-step guidance, explore the documentation on defining and applying bulleted lists.

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Pinpoint Precision: Smarter Frame Selection

Fine-tune your layouts with surgical precision. The improved frame selection tools bring new power to editing densely layered templates:

• Cycle Through Overlapping Frames: Use Ctrl/Cmd-click to navigate through the stacked frames at your cursor – no more frustration with hidden elements!
• Crystal Clear Selections: Multi-selection now collapses to the topmost frame, allowing for faster and more accurate adjustments during complex design sessions.

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HTML Output: Visual Consistency That Goes Anywhere

The Experimental HTML renderer in GraFx Studio takes another leap forward! HTML output now fully supports frame opacity, delivering pixel-perfect transparency and overlays just as you see them in your native layouts.

• Consistent Branding Across Channels: Your designs maintain their look and feel anywhere HTML output is used – be it web, signage, or digital campaigns.
• No Surprises: Preview, export, and deploy with confidence, knowing your creative work stays visually true in every environment.

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Stay ahead of the curve with every release. With GraFx Studio v1.34, you unlock more creative flexibility, sharper editing tools, and the confidence to deliver flawless, on-brand content for every project! 🌟

HTML Output, Frame Opacity Mastery, and More in GraFx Studio v1.33

Unlock powerful new possibilities and elevate your creative output with GraFx Studio v1.33! This release introduces HTML export for versatile, omnichannel digital content, powerful frame opacity controls, and an array of workflow refinements designed to supercharge your design process.

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Experience Total Flexibility: HTML Output for Templates

Unleash your designs outside static file formats! GraFx Studio v1.33 debuts HTML output (Experimental), enabling you to export dynamic templates as HTML. Imagine powering digital signage, web campaigns, or interactive experiences – all straight from your GraFx Studio dynamic layouts.

• Frictionless Digital Integration: Export your creative assets as ready-to-use HTML for displays, websites, or partner solutions.
• Maximize Template Value: Repurpose your designs across screens and channels, without extra manual steps.

See how to get started with HTML exports: Explore the HTML output documentation.

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Visual Control Unlocked: Frame Opacity Arrives

Add polish, depth, and elegant overlays to your layouts! GraFx Studio now supports frame opacity (alpha channel) on all frame types. Infuse your templates with subtle transparency or bold layered effects – perfect for modern branding and dynamic visual storytelling.

• Effortless Overlay Effects: Fine-tune transparency for text, images, and shapes to create standout visual moments.
• Layer with Precision: Build rich backdrops and highlights with fully customizable opacity settings.

Step-by-step guidance: Learn how to use frame opacity.

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More Refinements, More Speed, More Productivity

GraFx Studio v1.33 includes a host of smart enhancements:

• Error-Proof Design: Automatic warnings appear if your template uses a misconfigured font via a GraFx Connector – so you can quickly resolve issues and keep work on track.
• Work Faster: Instantly duplicate any frame with the new ALT + Drag shortcut, making creative experimentation swift and easy.
• Clearer Usability: Users on small screens (below 768px) now receive an in-app alert about minimum size requirements – maximizing your experience, wherever you create.
• Gradient Nirvana: Remove gradient stops by simply dragging them out for ultra-smooth editing. And GraFx plugins now support gradient imports, letting you move creative assets seamlessly between platforms.

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Effortless Project & Mobile Navigation

Staying organized and productive is just a tap away:

• Enhanced Project View: Switch between new list and grid modes, search, and sort your GraFx Studio projects with ease. See more on managing your projects.
• Smarter Mobile UX: Benefit from a fresh navigation menu and optimized avatar menu on mobile, built for faster access and smoother touch interactions.

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Bring your templates to more screens, layer visuals like a pro, and move faster than ever – all with GraFx Studio v1.33! ✨

Brilliant Gradients & Smarter Automation: New Enhancements in GraFx Studio v1.32

Bring your designs to life and experience unbeatable workflow improvements with GraFx Studio v1.32! This release adds breathtaking linear gradients, rapid variable creation, and major upgrades to GraFx Genie – all designed to help you work smarter, design faster, and deliver flawless results.

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Dazzle with Linear Gradients – Now for Every Shape

Ready to make your templates pop? GraFx Studio v1.32 introduces powerful linear gradient support for all shape frames. Layer vibrant or subtle color effects directly into your Smart Templates for truly custom branding and knockout visuals.

• Total Color Freedom: Use CMYK, RGB, Hex, or Spot Colors to fine-tune your gradients and keep every asset perfectly on brand.
• Designer-Controlled: Intuitively apply and adjust gradients for backgrounds, overlays, and accents – all within an optimized workflow.
• Step-by-Step Guidance: Learn exactly how to apply gradients in your projects.

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Smarter Variables & Effortless Data Mapping

Say goodbye to tedious manual variable setups. With the new Create Variables from Datasource option in the UI, you can instantly generate variables straight from your linked data – accelerating template prep and reducing errors.

• Rapid Data Onboarding: Map datasource content to template variables in seconds, cutting down repetitive work.
• Easy to Follow: See how to create variables from a linked datasource.

And for single-line text, you can now prevent line breaks to keep layouts clean and brand-compliant – discover how in the official guide.

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GraFx Genie: Unleash Longer, Smarter Prompts

GraFx Genie is now more capable than ever:

• More Room for Your Imagination: Input up to 4000 characters per prompt, giving you all the space you need for detailed instructions or creative coding ideas.
• Smarter Context Handling: Genie now recognizes your selected triggers and intelligently prevents circular references, ensuring effortless and accurate automation every time.

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Smoother, Faster, and More Reliable Than Ever

You asked, we delivered. GraFx Studio v1.32 packs in a host of performance enhancements and vital fixes, including:

• Accelerated Loading: Open documents faster – and stay productive even on complex projects.
• Seamless Indic Language Support: Accurate rendering for a wider array of languages ensures everyone’s message shines.
• Cleaner UI Interactions: No more stray resizing cursors during text edits, and improved mobile tray scrolling for perfect usability, everywhere.
• Rock-Solid Data Integrity: Number variables now block invalid (non-finite) values, so you never have to worry about saving errors or broken data flows.
• Effortless Media Browsing: Nested folders now work flawlessly in the variable image picker, giving you deeper and more organized asset access.

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Check out GraFx Studio v1.32 and experience the beauty of gradients, speedier data-driven design, and next-gen automation with GraFx Genie. Create, customize, and collaborate at scale – all while your workflow runs smoother than ever!

Dramatic Depth & Smoother Workflows: Drop Shadow Arrives in GraFx Studio v1.31

Elevate every visual with new creative power in GraFx Studio v1.31! This release introduces dynamic Drop Shadow support across all frame types, along with significant workflow and stability improvements – helping you craft standout designs, deliver seamless experiences, and work faster than ever.

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Add Impact Instantly: Now with Drop Shadow for Every Frame

Give your designs dimension and polish with the all-new Drop Shadow effect for any frame in GraFx Studio. Whether you’re creating social posts, displays, or custom layouts, Drop Shadow lets you add professional depth and emphasis with just a click.

• Universal Coverage: Apply Drop Shadow to any frame – text, images, or shapes – for ultimate design flexibility.
• Effortless Branding: Enhance your brand identity and template creations with subtle shading or bold emphasis, always perfectly on-brand.

This release also improves artwork import via plugins:

• Plug & Play Imports: Import invisible frames via plugins and retain your complete design structure.

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Smarter, Friendlier Studio UI

Editing and uploading assets just got more intuitive with enhanced feedback and controls:

• Clear Upload Status: Enjoy a smoother image upload experience with visible spinners and a "Loading preview" message, so you always know exactly what’s happening.
• No Overlaps, No Hassle: Uploading or browsing is now paused until your current upload finishes, preventing accidental missteps.
• Helpful Error Messages: Instantly see actionable, clear error alerts for missing assets or access issues – reducing confusion and saving time.
• Expanded Data Control: Work at scale with increased datasource page size (now up to 50 rows per page) for more efficient data browsing and selection.

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Reliability You Can Count On

• Crash-Free Loading: Experience stability improvements that eliminate loading errors in GraFx Studio.
• Connector Consistency: Enjoy seamless search functionality across more GraFx Connectors.
• Smoother Editing: Error-free deleting even during frame moves means nothing slows down your creative flow.

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Step up your creative impact and streamline your workflows with GraFx Studio v1.31 – where standout visuals and efficient production go hand in hand. Ready to see your templates pop? Try out the Drop Shadow effect and discover smarter control, every step of the way! 🎨

Effortless Design Precision: Text Stroke & Smarter Controls in GraFx Studio v1.30

Level up your creative toolkit with GraFx Studio v1.30, delivering sharper design control, enhanced workflows, and brand-new ways to perfect your templates.

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Bold Typography, Your Way: Text Stroke in GraFx Brand Kits

Now you can make headlines, tags, and calls to action stand out like never before. With the new text stroke option for Paragraph and Character styles available in GraFx Brand Kits, Template Designers can add an extra layer of typographic impact – all while keeping every element perfectly on brand.

• Consistent Styling: Ensure every Brand Kit delivers the same crisp, outlined text wherever it’s used.
• Limitless Creativity: Highlight key messages, create eye-catching effects, or improve readability with just a click.
• Seamless Imports: The Brand Kit importer now recognizes and applies text stroke, making migration smoother than ever.

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Smarter GraFx Studio Controls for Faster, Flawless Design

GraFx Studio introduces new controls built for speed, flexibility, and clarity. Here’s how your workflow just got better:

• Proportional Layout Lock: Keep designs perfectly scaled with the new option to restrict proportions to layout settings, ensuring on-brand consistency across every asset.
• Constrain Proportions in Studio UI: Resize images and elements with confidence, knowing they’ll stay in proportion every time you make adjustments.
• Clearer Guidance: Benefit from detailed help text for GraFx Connector media configuration, making setup and troubleshooting a breeze.
• Intuitive Interactions: Instantly see the resizing cursor when you hover over frame borders, so you always know where and how to adjust your designs.
• Performance Boost: Experience faster load times and smoother editing in templates with many variables – perfect for complex, data-driven campaigns.
• Refined AllLayouts View: Navigate and manage your layouts with even more clarity in the Studio UI.

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🛠️ Fixes & Enhancements

• Effortless Image Sizing: Clear minimum and maximum sizes easily during image uploads for more flexible asset management.
• Reliable Media Downloads: Improved stability for mediaConnector.download calls.
• Visual Consistency: Blend modes now render more accurately, and layer fill colors reset as expected when undoing overrides – so what you see is always what you get.

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Craft every asset with precision. With GraFx Studio v1.30, you’re equipped to create on-brand, standout designs – faster and easier than ever. Try the latest features and see your templates shine!

Seamless Creative Automation: Import InDesign® and Photoshop® Exports via GraFx Studio API

Connect your favorite creative tools directly to GraFx Studio and unlock a whole new level of automation and flexibility for your design team!

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✨ Smarter Integrations with the GraFx Studio API

Accelerate your creative workflows with the enhanced GraFx Studio Environment API. Now you can seamlessly import Adobe® InDesign® and Photoshop® export packages through the API – giving you end-to-end control over your design automation.

What does this mean for your business?

• Integrated Workflows: Move your designs effortlessly from Adobe® InDesign® or Photoshop® into GraFx Studio as Smart Templates, ready for instant reuse and personalization.
• Accelerated Go-To-Market: Eliminate manual hand-offs – automate the import process and keep your creative pipeline moving at top speed.
• Total Flexibility: Develop custom integrations and connect GraFx Studio to the systems and tools your team already loves, from DAMs to e-commerce platforms.

Ready to get started?

• Discover how to export from Adobe® InDesign® and export from Adobe® Photoshop® for API import.
• Dive into the GraFx Environment API documentation for powerful integration capabilities.
• If you're building something big, follow this step-by-step guide to building your own integration!

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Transform design hand-offs into a thing of the past. The GraFx Studio API brings Adobe® creative assets straight into your automated content workflow, so you can create, adapt, and deliver at scale – with zero friction. 🚀

Streamlined Asset Management in GraFx Studio: Simultaneous Upload & Browse Now Live

Managing creative assets in GraFx Studio just became easier and more intuitive than ever. With the v1.29 update, end users can now upload and browse assets at the same time – directly from the GraFx Studio interface.

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✨ Upload and Browse, Side by Side

Say goodbye to workflow interruptions. With the new Image Variable enhancements, you can now upload new graphics into your designated GraFx Media folders and instantly browse all available assets – all from a single place.

Here’s how this empowers your team:

• Frictionless Personalization: End users no longer have to choose between uploading or browsing – both options are available side by side, making it fast and convenient to find the perfect image for any template.
• Seamless Configuration for Template Designers: Template Designers gain ultimate flexibility by configuring Image Variables that support both browsing and uploading. You decide which GraFx Media directories are available for each action – giving total control over asset management and creative guardrails.
• Consistent Brand Experience: Whether reusing on-brand images or introducing new content, teams maintain brand consistency with complete oversight of where assets are stored and accessed.

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Enhanced User Experience

• Form Builder Improvements: Enjoy a smoother, more responsive configuration process with the latest refinements to Form Builder.
• UI Fixes: Download popups are now perfectly aligned when the back button is removed, ensuring a polished, professional experience every time.

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Discover the new standard in creative asset management – where flexibility meets control – in GraFx Studio v1.29!

Ready to simplify and supercharge your team’s creative process? Try out the new simultaneous upload and browse features today!

Custom Forms, Your Way: Introducing the GraFx Studio UI Form Builder

Designing for others just got a whole lot easier. The new User Interface Form Builder in CHILI GraFx Studio empowers Template Designers to take full control of the end-user experience – no code required.

Whether you’re streamlining workflows for global teams or clarifying creative requests for clients, the Form Builder lets you decide exactly what users see and how they interact with your Smart Templates in My Projects.

What Sets the Form Builder Apart?

• Customizable Input Panels – Choose which sections – like Data Sources, Layouts, and Variables – are visible to each user.
• Tailored Guidance – Rename sections and add help text, eliminating confusion and ensuring every brand guideline is followed.
• Seamless User Experience – Enable or disable features like layout selection and resizing, all while previewing the end-user interface in real time.
• Frictionless Personalization – Hide unnecessary options to keep things clean, focused, and on-brand every time.

Why You’ll Love It:

Picture this: Your local marketers open My Projects and see only what’s relevant to them – no clutter, no questions, just an intuitive form that guides them through personalization. Faster turnarounds, fewer errors, and complete brand control – all thanks to an experience you configured in seconds.

Release Highlights

• Full Layout Control: Define exactly what your users see and do in My Projects.
• Real-Time Interface Preview: Instantly see changes as you configure the form.
• Mobile-Ready: Improved support for seamless media switching on mobile devices.
• Smoother Workflows: Plus, bug fixes for a glitch-free Run mode experience.

Ready for next-level template management? Explore the Form Builder and reimagine how end users engage with your Smart Templates in GraFx Studio.

Bring Your Photoshop Creations into GraFx Studio

Introducing the GraFx Studio Exporter for Adobe® Photoshop®

Ready to take your creative workflows to the next level? We’re excited to unveil an all-new, experimental plugin designed to make it easier than ever to bring your Adobe® Photoshop® projects directly into GraFx Studio as Smart Templates.

Transform your Photoshop designs into dynamic, reusable templates – without leaving your favorite tools!

Why You’ll Love It

• Lightning-fast multi-artboard export – Effortlessly export multiple artboards of the same size as multi-page GraFx Studio templates. Perfect for complex projects, presentations, or digital publications.
• Creative confidence, guaranteed – Preflight checks flag unsupported features and suggest smart fixes or seamless PDF conversion for flawless results every time.
• All your creative assets, perfectly preserved – Enjoy robust support for blending modes, vector shapes, and RGB/CMYK color modes, ensuring your designs look exactly as you intended.
• Streamlined workflow – Export all unique document colors as versatile GraFx Studio color resources, and automatically skip hidden layers for a cleaner finish.

⚡ This plugin is available in Experimental mode – get early access to the latest innovation and help shape its future! Learn more about Experimental releases.

Ready to Get Started?

• The GraFx Studio Photoshop Exporter works with Adobe® Photoshop® 2024 and 2025, with ongoing testing on version 25.0 (January 2025).

Pro Tip: Want to see how easy it is to convert other Adobe documents? Check out our handy guides for converting Photoshop files and InDesign documents into GraFx Studio Smart Templates!

Turn your Photoshop brilliance into shareable, flexible templates – right inside GraFx Studio. Get started today!

Exciting Updates in CHILI GraFx v1.28: Enhanced Performance, Flexibility & Mobile Experience!

Discover What's New in CHILI GraFx v1.28!

Get ready for a smoother, faster, and even more powerful visual content automation experience with our latest CHILI GraFx release! Here’s what you can look forward to:

✨ Enhanced Features for Maximum Productivity

• Customizable Brand Kits: Now you can easily remove unnecessary styles from your Brand Kits, giving you more flexibility and control over your brand assets.
• Optimized Mobile View: Enjoy a seamless workflow on any device. Our mobile improvements mean on-the-go editing and approvals have never been easier.
• Lightning-Fast Performance: We've dialed up the speed, ensuring CHILI GraFx is more reliable and responsive than ever – so you can focus on creating, not waiting.
• Smarter SDK Integration: Integrate CHILI GraFx into your systems with greater efficiency, thanks to our enhanced Software Development Kit.

Bugfixes for a Flawless Experience

• Smooth Media Management: Issues with specific media folder names are a thing of the past – organization is now effortless.
• Reliable Form Builder Defaults: Creating forms is more intuitive with properly set default options every time.

Check out CHILI GraFx v1.28 today and experience creative automation at its best! Questions or feedback? Let us know and let's create something amazing together!

Smarter Templates: Automated Copy Cleanup for Word-Perfect Content Production

Nothing slows down automated content production like awkward gaps and empty lines from missing data. With GraFx Studio v1.28, your Smart Templates just got smarter:

Empty variables? The paragraph disappears – instantly and automatically.

This new release ensures your automated assets always look polished and professional, even when certain data fields (like a missing product description, disclaimer, or promo code) aren’t available. No more empty spaces or broken layouts – your copy flows naturally, every single time.

What’s in the release:

• Automatic Paragraph Removal: If a variable is empty, GraFx Studio now simply eliminates the entire paragraph for you – no manual clean-up needed
• Cleaner Automation at Scale: Run high-volume, variable-driven campaigns with confidence – every layout looks intentional and on-brand
• Engineered for Speed & Stability: Performance upgrades and bug fixes mean you get more done, with fewer hiccups

How it works

Automating at scale? Just set your template to remove paragraphs linked to empty variables. From digital ads to catalogs, your designs stay “client-ready” automatically.

Experience frictionless, high-velocity production with the new GraFx Studio – where smart automation delivers professional results, no matter what your data looks like.

Introducing GraFx Genie Vision: Smarter. Sharper. More Powerful.

Experience a new era of visual intelligence with GraFx Genie Vision! Our latest update supercharges your creative workflow, delivering even smarter image insights and precision recognition – so you can focus on what matters most: results.

✨ What’s New: See More, Do More

Enhanced Contextual Recognition: Now, Genie Vision recognizes a broader range of objects – like houses and buildings – allowing you to pinpoint assets with unprecedented accuracy. Whether you’re managing real estate images or cityscapes, you’ll find exactly what you need, faster.

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What’s Improved: Sharper Person Detection & Reliable Results

• Person Detection: Enjoy more reliable tagging and identification, making it seamless to curate people-focused collections.
• Logo Detection Removed: Say goodbye to false positives! We’ve eliminated logo detection for cleaner, more relevant search results.
• Eye Detection Upgrades: Genie Vision now locates points-of-interest on faces with even greater accuracy for stunning, perfectly framed results, every time.

Note: These improvements apply to new assets or those never processed before - so your freshest content gets all the benefits instantly!

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Maximize Genie Vision with Smart Crop

Ready to harness next-level composition? Dive into:

• Smart Crop concept pages
• Smart Crop how-to guides

GraFx Genie Vision: Set your creative vision free. Try the upgrade now!

Introducing GraFx Brand Kits: One-Click Brand Consistency Across Every Design

Your brand, everywhere – beautifully consistent. GraFx Brand Kits are here to make on-brand creative production faster (and easier) than ever before.

Define your brand once. Apply it everywhere.

Build your Brand Kit in GraFx Studio to centralize your core brand ingredients: logos and imagery, color palettes, fonts, and both character and paragraph styles. Now every designer – and every template – can instantly stay on-brand, no matter how fast you’re creating or how often your assets evolve.

What does this mean for you?

• Lightning-fast template creation: Choose your Brand Kit, and every template inherits the right styles and elements – no more manual setup or brand guidelines hunting.
• Always on-brand: Scale up creative production with total confidence. Every team, every output, fully aligned.
• Effortless updates: Tweak your Brand Kit and see changes reflected instantly across future design work.

Explore GraFx Brand Kits and see how easy world-class brand control can be.

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GraFx Studio v1.27 Release Highlights

✍️ Next-Level Text & Fonts

• Text Stroke: Make typography pop with sharp, precisely-rendered outlines – perfect in the editor and in print/PDF. Fine-tune the look for impactful, readable text anywhere.
• Indic-Language Support: Go global with native support for Devanagari and more, enabling inclusive design for diverse audiences.

⚡ Designer Productivity Upgrades

• Sticky Variable Settings: Rename variables without losing your place or settings panels - keeping workflows smooth and efficient.

🔧 Engine Enhancements

• Auto-Extraction of Translatable Strings: Templates are more localization – ready than ever.
• Smoother Canvas Repaints: Enjoy crisper visuals and faster, more fluid editing experiences.

🐛 Fixes & Polish

• Template previews now perfectly match final output.
• PDF text strokes retain perfect alignment.
• "Save As" always includes your chosen file name.
• No more orphaned styles after undo.
• General performance and stability boosts.

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With GraFx Brand Kits and the latest GraFx Studio improvements, creative teams can scale faster, produce more on-brand content, and go global with freshly streamlined workflows.

Happy creating!