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The editor

The Imprime editor

The editor is split into four areas:

  1. Header — back arrow to your templates, the title and code fields, undo/redo, and Variables, Preview and Imprime.
  2. Pages panel (left) — thumbnails of every page.
  3. Toolbar and context bar (top) — the tools, and the options of the selected tool or shape.
  4. Canvas (center) — the current page, with a zoom bar at the bottom right.

Type in the title field next to the back arrow. The title is saved half a second after you stop typing, and is also used as the file name of exported PDFs (<title>.pdf).

Each page becomes one page of the PDF, on the template’s canvas.

Action How
Add a page + Add at the top of the pages panel. The new page is inserted after the current one.
Go to a page Click its thumbnail.
Reorder Drag a thumbnail and drop it where the indigo insertion line appears.
Delete Hover a thumbnail and click the red trash icon, then confirm. The last remaining page can’t be deleted.
Tool Icon What it does
Move ✥ Select, drag and resize shapes. Active by default.
Rectangle ⊞ Click and drag on the canvas to draw a rectangle.
Ellipse ⊕ Click and drag to draw an ellipse or a circle.
Text box Tт Click and drag to draw a text box, then type.
Image 🖼 Opens a file picker and places the image in the center of the page.

After you draw a shape, the editor switches back to Move and selects the new shape.

Next to the toolbar, the context bar adapts to what you’re doing:

  • with a rectangle or ellipse — fill, stroke and (for rectangles) corner radius (details);
  • inside a text box — font, size, color, bold / italic / underline and the ⚡ Variables button (details).

With the Move tool, click a shape to select it. Drag it to move it, and drag the handles of the dashed selection frame to resize it.

When a shape is selected, a small vertical toolbar appears to its right:

Button Effect
🗑 (red) Delete the shape (with confirmation)
⤒ Bring to front Put the shape above all others
⌃ Bring forward Move it one level up
⌄ Send backward Move it one level down
⤓ Send to back Put the shape below all others

The stacking order you see on the canvas is exactly the one rendered in the PDF.

Use the zoom bar at the bottom right: − / + step through 25 %, 50 %, 75 %, 100 %, 125 %, 150 % and 200 %; the slider allows anything in between, and clicking the percentage resets to 100 %. Zoom only affects your view, never the PDF.