FotoBOOK.Platform

FotoBOOK.Platform is web-to-print the solution which allows the enterprises to start quickly online the editor of photobooks, to integrate it with the existing polygraphic infrastructure of the enterprise and to provide online acceptance and processing orders of photobooks.

The software solution for the polygraphic enterprises FotoBOOK.Platform gives to end users an opportunity to select photobook parameters, to load photos for the photobook from different the Internet and local resources, to make out the photobook by editing and arrangement of photos, cliparts and other elements of design. The functionality of the FotoBOOK platform includes an opportunity online and offline of payment through the big list of payment systems.

The functionality of an administrative part of the platform allows managers of the polygraphic company to create a set of products with which the end user will work, to configure formats, types of covers and covers and also other parameters of photobooks. Integration into the existing polygraphic process of the company happens due to setup of the DPI level of products, a format of the generated prototype of the photobook, the size of departures of pages of the created photobook, porazvorotnoy / page-by-page generation of bands in the prototype, the addresses FTP of the polygraphic server and matrix setup of the prices of products.

2016: FotoBOOK.Platform

In the announced version 2.0 project infrastructure was cardinally updated and processed thanks to what the platform can be scaled in cluster installations and service a huge number of users. The editor is added to online the new operation mode Imagination focused on professional use of the editor. In the editor that carries out cardinal redesign of GUI and full support of multilingualism is implemented. On server side all frameworks are updated to the latests version that allows us to increase efficiency of development of new functionality and speed of delivery of new versions of a product to the market. These and other significant changes in the project allow us to speak about release of a new product of version 2.0 with considerably the improved user and technical characteristics.

According to the researches InfoTrends, the upper segment of the world market of industrial full-color digital printing by 2018 will grow from 60 to 87 billion pages. It opens attractive opportunities of business development before suppliers of printing services. Our platform is unique competitive advantage for printing houses and will help them to gain trust of the most exacting clients".

End users online of the editor of version 2.0 will have opportunities:

• new regime of the editor - Imagination which is intended for work of professional users, photographers, designers. In the Imagination mode users will be able to do photo albums with own subjects created from parts of the existing subjects in FotoBOOK.Platform by use of independently created backgrounds, cliparts, a framework, vector and bit masks;
• the possibility of print preview by the user of final pdf of the model of the photobook is implemented. It allows to raise considerably the quality level of the printed photobooks and to reduce returns since the user has a verifiability of the final model and to see the model for 100% corresponding to the fact that it will be printed;
• the possibility of creation of directories (folders) for the user's photo collections is implemented that gives the chance to sort and move a photo according to directories for convenience of filling of the photobook with the images distributed, for example, on the periods or subject;
• on work with editing photos. Now the user can edit shadow parameters color/transparency/shift/blur for photobook elements;
• the possibility of change of parameters of a vector frame online is implemented that allows the user to change color/thickness/rounding off of corners of a frame and display of the changed parameters at once on pages of the photobook;
• for bigger convenience and speed the feature for use of the hot keys ctrl+z, +x, +c was added;
• and many other things is everything about 80 new features are added to online the editor.

Special value to the photobook is given by its individual and unique design. For convenience and ease of work of designers during creation of new models of photobooks in version 2.0 the editor of templates for photobooks of FotoBOOK.ThemeEditor was thoroughly processed. The most part of alterations connected with change of the graphical interface and new features was implemented in a close sheaf with graphic designers of several companies clients using FotoBOOK.Platform. The experts designer of our clients prompted many important improvements for the editor to those thanks to what in version 2.0 it was succeeded to increase the speed of creation of new subjects considerably.

The updated editor that will please creators of templates of photobooks with such opportunities and improvements:

• in the editor of subjects there was a possibility of support of several fonts of one family (font family) for support of different alphabets. what will allow to do multilingual subjects with support of different alphabets;
• support of multilingualism for templates of photobooks with text content is implemented. Text content of photobooks will be displayed according to the interface language selected by the user;
• use of all cores of the processor when exporting the project is implemented that significantly increases the speed of work of the designer;
• for simplification of studying by beginners of functionality tooltip balloons are added to all buttons in the editor's window, the reference panel with examples of pages of a subject and calculation of parameters of formats is added;
• for increase in convenience and acceleration of work in the editor the keyboard shortcut was added (the hot keys for work with the application);
• the possibility of copying of elements between projects with use of the multibuffer is implemented that gives an opportunity for work with elements without repeated loading;
• alignment of elements rather each other is implemented that allows to increase the speed of creation of a subject and convenience to designers.

This version of the platform for creation of photobooks of FotoBOOK.Platform, will help printing houses to create a reliable basis for development of their business in the Internet space, will allow to expand a geographical coverage of client audience and to increase availability and a possibility of customization of products for clients.