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How to view and generate output pdfs for photobook products

You can generate the output pdfs after your customers have designed their photo albums. There are two types of outputs:

  • For the coffetable type of product, there are two pdfs generated in total. One pdf includes the inner pages and outer pages. Another pdf includes the cover pages (front and back) The first page on the left of the coffeetable type of output is always kept blank.
  • For the layflat type of product, there is only one pdf generated which includes all the pages of the book. No page is kept blank by default in this type of product. 

After designing the album and inserting the snaps, customers can order the photobook product. When they order a photobook product, you will receive the Photobook orders in Sales -> Orders option. By clicking on the Orders option, you will get the list of orders in grid view.

Click on View option of any order of Photobook. By scrolling down on the order detail page, you will get the View Design option. Here output images and PDFs are automatically generated by cron in background.

  1. “Output Type” is Coffee: You will get Cover Page PDF, Inner Pages PDF and Separate Images (in PNG/JPG) based on the selected configuration from the backend. “Cover Page Pdf” contains Front and Back Pages while “Inner Page pdf” contains all the Pages in sequence except Front and Back Page. Separate Images names given based on the product name and page sequence.

Eg: “Print-Modern White Photo Book-8 x 12-White-Page 1 Left.png” 

“Print-Modern White Photo Book-8 x 12-White-Page 1 Right.png” and so on.

  1. If Photobook “Output Type” is Layflat: You will get Cover Page PDF, Inner Pages PDF and Separate Images (in PNG/JPG) based on the selected configuration from the backend. “Cover Page Pdf” contains Front and Back pages while “Inner Page pdf” contains all the Pages as per the layout of Cover Page Pdf.
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