PrintShop Mail Direct Smile Guide
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Table of contents 1 Add Emotions to Your PrintShop Mail Documents with image personalization............................................................................................... 1 2 Before you start................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 3 Installation ..............................................................................................
1 Add Emotions to Your PrintShop Mail Documents with image personalization Personalized Images add emotional power to your documents, which make your mailings, invitations, and postcards more attractive and responsive. Objectif Lune, creator of PrintShop Mail, and DirectSmile, leader in personalized imaging software have teamed-up and developed a connector allowing both applications to communicate for a streamlined integration of personalized images.
2 Before you start Important Notice Despite the fact that the integration of DirectSmile with PrintShop Mail benefits from state-of-the-art optimization and speed improvements techniques, the generation of personalized images can still consume considerable amount of computer resources. Therefore, DirectSmile must run on a separate computer than the one where PrintShop Mail is installed in order to spread computer resources.
3 Installation PrintShop Mail Installation Install PrintShop Mail for Windows on your computer using the application CD or by downloading the latest version from www.objectiflune.com. Navigate to Downloads -> Software Upgrade. Connect the PrintShop Mail dongle. DirectSmile Installation Install DirectSmile on a second computer on your local network.
4 Design We will now design a simple, 2-up duplex, postcard application to demonstrate the power of PrintShop Mail and DirectSmile. 1. Go to Menu Edit > Preferences (or press Ctrl-K), select Repetition, and set the Vertical Layout Repetition to 2. Click OK. 2. Click on the DirectSmile icon located on the Tool Panel at the left hand side. This will insert a DirectSmile object. Double click on the object to start the DirectSmile wizard. Objectif Lune Inc.
Design 3. A connection is made to the DirectSmile computer. It should be found on the network automatically. If this is not the case, please contact your system or network administrator. It needs to be ensured that DirectSmile is running and port 5000 is not in use or blocked by a firewall. If the host is not found automatically, the host name can be entered manually.
Design Note regarding data sent to DirectSmile. DirectSmile templates may not be designed to support all characters. In this case, a warning may pop up, or the generated image contains no personalization. By double-clicking on Firstname, a reference to the firstname Field has been created. Click on OK. 7. PrintShop Mail will now send a request to DirectSmile to generate an image for the first record of the database. By clicking through (Alt + Right Arrow) the records, previews are generated.
Design 9. We will now insert a background image of a postcard. Menu Insert -> PDF and select ‘DSM Card Background English.pdf’ 10. Select the Data Layout at the right hand screen and drag and drop the variable contents to the card. Objectif Lune Inc.
Design 11. Complete the card and hit Menu File -> Print Preview (Ctrl + F2) This preview shows 4x3=12 pages, each preview is 2-up. Congratulations! You have successfully created your first promotional print run integrating personalized images! Objectif Lune Inc.
