Regarding "pulling in" products, we call it loading a product because there's so much more than just an image... unlike the simple flash designers, each product in rtd contains a huge array of setup variables - bg colors, fg colors, which fonts and clipart to use, which tools are active, pricing tables.... while text, shape and clipart elements are basically just images. So changingby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Not really much to add... A vector background can contain CUT LINES and REGISTRATION MARKS, which can be hidden from the user by the foreground image. A similar effect can be created by putting cut lines or registration marks in your clipart, but by allowing the same in BG & FG, you can have a lot more flexibility. Good job Alex! Markby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
New feature announcement for anyone who has an incredible number of colors to manage... You can now "filter" your colorlist by using keywords. This makes it easy to assign the correct colors of a certain shirt from a library of 100's of colors. We're finishing up now on the filter list for ANVIL, HANES, GILDAN, FRUIT and JERZEES and will provide the list very soon on the LIBRARIESby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
We've put up a new page indexing the RTD videos on the wiki - http://support.realtimedesigner.com/wiki/doku.php/videos The first (RTD Intro) and last videos(Products with Background and Foreground Images) on the list are brand new. We're open to suggestions for other videos as well. Markby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
To be quite frank, I don't know. Since it really was meant for new installations it wasn't a concern. Our plugin creates entirely new product pages. We haven't addressed how this would work with your existing pages. What version do you use? What would prevent you from updating your WP? As we do more with WP were finding even more opportunities to integrate it with rtd.by Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Nice Work. I'll write up the details for the things you mentioned as soon as I return from Vegas. We've done several updates to the code and have learned of some other things we can do in the future. The biggest change so far is the templates. If you go to www.signatopia.com (our test site) you should see the design templates at the bottom of the banner product pages. We now create a liby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Great - keep us abreast if you find any changes are needed to the internals of the plugin - that we we will all be on the same page and benefit from each others work. If we get separate versions of the plugin out there, we will quickly not be able to apply advances the other person finds. Markby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
We don't know WordPress that well yet - it just seemed like the perfect fit to tap into RTD's power. YES - the plugin was made to "plop" the data into WP pages. I was hoping with your CSS you could move and restyle those "plops" all that you needed to. Perhaps you could educate me on what is needed in the pages so that we can give you ability to style it outside of PHP/js.by Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Regarding how to style the CSS of WordPress - I'm afraid we can't offer any help just yet. We are still learning how to set up WordPress - here's our plan: STEP 1 build API in RTD so external programs like WordPress can access RTD data (this step was done by Alex a few months ago) STEP 2 build WordPress Plugin to read data from RTD to verify that the RTD API properly sends data to externalby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
The input data for the option for fonts, colors, templates are as follows table header TEXT YOU WANT TO DISPLAY ABOVE THE TABLE table swath width HOW MANY PIXELS WIDE YOU WANT THE ITEM table swath height HOW MANY PIXELS HIGH YOU WANT THE ITEM table numcolumns HOW MANY COLUMNS YOU WANT IN THE TABLE table footer TEXT YOU WANT UNDER THE TABLE The only tricky input is the live pricing useby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Certainly. I just changed your site to roadrunnerwidgets. JUST KIDDING. Please let us know the new name and when you want the change effective. Markby Admin - General Discussion
We've tested this a bit but there's likely more we want to add to it. Please consider it a BETA release. Any suggestions you may have are much appreciated. We are now working with our graphics guy to ensure there is adequate styling capabilities. You can get the files here: http://support.realtimedesigner.com/docs/auto_post_from_api.zip The RTD Wordpress Plugin Before You Begin, Yoby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
The RealTimeDesigner team announces the release of the RTD Wordpress Plugin. Wordpress is the leading website content management system (CMS) used by millions of websites. With the RTD Wordpress Plugin, you can quickly generate content for your website based on RTD and then link to all of the online design features that have made RTD the leading design online application since 2000. The plby Admin - Announcements from the RealTimeDesigner Team
Unfortunately rotation is a bit of a problem for now. Until we phase out IE 7 & 8 compatibility, we can't use the newer HTML 5 tools that properly implement rotation. We are tracking users browsers and there's still a lot using the outdated versions but eventually we will alert them with a message when they try to enter RTD. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Here a link to my first product using textures - ultra metalic vinyl http://designer.realtimedesigner.com/stickerz-rtd/index.php&tng=Y3BpPTQ5NzQ1JmNwaXM9MjM2Njc3JmNwaXNfdz0zNiZjcGlzX2g9MTgmY3RpZz0w Add a shape or text and change the colors of it. Markby Admin - General Discussion
The process for this has totally left my brain. I have one product that I have several different sizes for and, when I go in the design tool and design it for one product, the same things show up on each size. What kind of SAME THINGS - please explain. And, when I go to change the layout on another size, it does the same thing on everything else. Again - please explain what these THINGSby Admin - General Discussion
There is no INTERPOLATION function for add-ons. You will need to define a pricing matrix for each size or for groups of sizes such as 1 to 5 sq ft = $5, 6-10 sq ft = $10, etc. You can also define a new product which includes the addon that has the extra $1.50 charge built into the price. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Please check this posting.... http://support.realtimedesigner.com/forum/read.php?3,1554,1559#msg-1559 Markby Admin - General Discussion
There are soooo many variables that need to be captured to accurately price vinyl cut vinyl. Many online designers have limited their offerings so that they can control pricing more precisely. We've opted to offer the customer more abilities to create their designs while still keeping setup and control of the system manageable. Our approach is to average the pricing over all shoppers. Sure,by Admin - General Discussion
There's a bit more to it than entering $3 but it's so much more powerful so that you can handle lots of other situations. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Most of you who use templates are aware that when text is edited, the new text fills the same bounding box as the original text itme. This results in text being stretched or squeezed when the text string length changes. RTD also has the ability to allow your product template text to keep its same proportions thus changing the bounding box size. Here's the steps to utilize this feature: 1.by Admin - Howto and Tutorials
If the circles are fixed size, you can use a foreground image that prevents them from placing any graphics or colors outside any boundary you set.by Admin - General Discussion
Seems you have the address for the sign location entered as sign text. All text in the design is used in calculating the price when you use the PER LETTER pricing. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Can you send direct links to the product you reference. The price for 22 letters at $8 per letter should definitely calc to $176. Are there other letters in the design? the system counts ALL letters in the design when you use per-letter pricing. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Alex is away for a couple days but a major change required of this request is our billing - we don't charge for orders until the client submits them. They can design as many designs as they wish but you aren't charged until the order is submitted. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Not sure what you mean by the FIRST PAGE but the live pricing function is now available in the short description (second page of RTD Catalog for most users). The FIRST PAGE shows categories but not products so we can't "reach" prcing at this point. To activate it, insert the .. code into the catalog short description at PRODUCT OPTIONS > MANAGE/DEFINE PRODUCTS > EDIT > SHORTby Admin - General Discussion
Near the bottom of the pricing matrix is a line for per letter charge. For the CSV files, not sure if those 2 lines will be sufficient but give it a try. I use excel and copy a formula to create lines for each weight 1, 2, 3, 4, ...... Yes put the same price in all columns. I suggest putting realistic weights in all your products. That way you can easily change your shipping charges to aby Admin - General Discussion
We use general templates for designs that can apply to many different products. And product templates for those products that are aimed at a particular product. One of our clients prints on hockey sticks, pucks, etc. Their templates are product templates because the artwork for a stick won't fit a puck very well. Markby Admin - General Discussion
Everything is working to the best of our knowledge but the implementation is done on your side. We've built the critical pieces that we felt were missing... 1) DESIGN IT NOW button inside magento that links to RTD 2) Cart retrieval from RTD into Magento 3) Ability for registered users to log in to magento and RTD with on login A future thing we may look at is populating magento with theby Admin - General Discussion
If your design has static text that doesn't change - you could insert it as clipart instead of text. That way the static text won't be counted in letter count. For your shipping issue - not sure i fully understand. The CSV files are an alternate to UPS live shipping. You basically create a file with weights and corresponding rates, so you can easily make 100 pounds the same price as 1 poundby Admin - General Discussion