What's New in CHILI GraFx

Dramatic Depth & Smoother Workflows: Drop Shadow Arrives in GraFx Studio v1.31

Elevate every visual with new creative power in GraFx Studio v1.31! This release introduces dynamic Drop Shadow support across all frame types, along with significant workflow and stability improvements – helping you craft standout designs, deliver seamless experiences, and work faster than ever.

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Add Impact Instantly: Now with Drop Shadow for Every Frame

Give your designs dimension and polish with the all-new Drop Shadow effect for any frame in GraFx Studio. Whether you’re creating social posts, displays, or custom layouts, Drop Shadow lets you add professional depth and emphasis with just a click.

• Universal Coverage: Apply Drop Shadow to any frame – text, images, or shapes – for ultimate design flexibility.
• Effortless Branding: Enhance your brand identity and template creations with subtle shading or bold emphasis, always perfectly on-brand.

This release also improves artwork import via plugins:

• Plug & Play Imports: Import invisible frames via plugins and retain your complete design structure.

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Smarter, Friendlier Studio UI

Editing and uploading assets just got more intuitive with enhanced feedback and controls:

• Clear Upload Status: Enjoy a smoother image upload experience with visible spinners and a "Loading preview" message, so you always know exactly what’s happening.
• No Overlaps, No Hassle: Uploading or browsing is now paused until your current upload finishes, preventing accidental missteps.
• Helpful Error Messages: Instantly see actionable, clear error alerts for missing assets or access issues – reducing confusion and saving time.
• Expanded Data Control: Work at scale with increased datasource page size (now up to 50 rows per page) for more efficient data browsing and selection.

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Reliability You Can Count On

• Crash-Free Loading: Experience stability improvements that eliminate loading errors in GraFx Studio.
• Connector Consistency: Enjoy seamless search functionality across more GraFx Connectors.
• Smoother Editing: Error-free deleting even during frame moves means nothing slows down your creative flow.

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Step up your creative impact and streamline your workflows with GraFx Studio v1.31 – where standout visuals and efficient production go hand in hand. Ready to see your templates pop? Try out the Drop Shadow effect and discover smarter control, every step of the way! 🎨

Effortless Design Precision: Text Stroke & Smarter Controls in GraFx Studio v1.30

Level up your creative toolkit with GraFx Studio v1.30, delivering sharper design control, enhanced workflows, and brand-new ways to perfect your templates.

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Bold Typography, Your Way: Text Stroke in GraFx Brand Kits

Now you can make headlines, tags, and calls to action stand out like never before. With the new text stroke option for Paragraph and Character styles available in GraFx Brand Kits, Template Designers can add an extra layer of typographic impact – all while keeping every element perfectly on brand.

• Consistent Styling: Ensure every Brand Kit delivers the same crisp, outlined text wherever it’s used.
• Limitless Creativity: Highlight key messages, create eye-catching effects, or improve readability with just a click.
• Seamless Imports: The Brand Kit importer now recognizes and applies text stroke, making migration smoother than ever.

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Smarter GraFx Studio Controls for Faster, Flawless Design

GraFx Studio introduces new controls built for speed, flexibility, and clarity. Here’s how your workflow just got better:

• Proportional Layout Lock: Keep designs perfectly scaled with the new option to restrict proportions to layout settings, ensuring on-brand consistency across every asset.
• Constrain Proportions in Studio UI: Resize images and elements with confidence, knowing they’ll stay in proportion every time you make adjustments.
• Clearer Guidance: Benefit from detailed help text for GraFx Connector media configuration, making setup and troubleshooting a breeze.
• Intuitive Interactions: Instantly see the resizing cursor when you hover over frame borders, so you always know where and how to adjust your designs.
• Performance Boost: Experience faster load times and smoother editing in templates with many variables – perfect for complex, data-driven campaigns.
• Refined AllLayouts View: Navigate and manage your layouts with even more clarity in the Studio UI.

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🛠️ Fixes & Enhancements

• Effortless Image Sizing: Clear minimum and maximum sizes easily during image uploads for more flexible asset management.
• Reliable Media Downloads: Improved stability for mediaConnector.download calls.
• Visual Consistency: Blend modes now render more accurately, and layer fill colors reset as expected when undoing overrides – so what you see is always what you get.

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Craft every asset with precision. With GraFx Studio v1.30, you’re equipped to create on-brand, standout designs – faster and easier than ever. Try the latest features and see your templates shine!

Seamless Creative Automation: Import InDesign® and Photoshop® Exports via GraFx Studio API

Connect your favorite creative tools directly to GraFx Studio and unlock a whole new level of automation and flexibility for your design team!

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✨ Smarter Integrations with the GraFx Studio API

Accelerate your creative workflows with the enhanced GraFx Studio Environment API. Now you can seamlessly import Adobe® InDesign® and Photoshop® export packages through the API – giving you end-to-end control over your design automation.

What does this mean for your business?

• Integrated Workflows: Move your designs effortlessly from Adobe® InDesign® or Photoshop® into GraFx Studio as Smart Templates, ready for instant reuse and personalization.
• Accelerated Go-To-Market: Eliminate manual hand-offs – automate the import process and keep your creative pipeline moving at top speed.
• Total Flexibility: Develop custom integrations and connect GraFx Studio to the systems and tools your team already loves, from DAMs to e-commerce platforms.

Ready to get started?

• Discover how to export from Adobe® InDesign® and export from Adobe® Photoshop® for API import.
• Dive into the GraFx Environment API documentation for powerful integration capabilities.
• If you're building something big, follow this step-by-step guide to building your own integration!

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Transform design hand-offs into a thing of the past. The GraFx Studio API brings Adobe® creative assets straight into your automated content workflow, so you can create, adapt, and deliver at scale – with zero friction. 🚀

Streamlined Asset Management in GraFx Studio: Simultaneous Upload & Browse Now Live

Managing creative assets in GraFx Studio just became easier and more intuitive than ever. With the v1.29 update, end users can now upload and browse assets at the same time – directly from the GraFx Studio interface.

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✨ Upload and Browse, Side by Side

Say goodbye to workflow interruptions. With the new Image Variable enhancements, you can now upload new graphics into your designated GraFx Media folders and instantly browse all available assets – all from a single place.

Here’s how this empowers your team:

• Frictionless Personalization: End users no longer have to choose between uploading or browsing – both options are available side by side, making it fast and convenient to find the perfect image for any template.
• Seamless Configuration for Template Designers: Template Designers gain ultimate flexibility by configuring Image Variables that support both browsing and uploading. You decide which GraFx Media directories are available for each action – giving total control over asset management and creative guardrails.
• Consistent Brand Experience: Whether reusing on-brand images or introducing new content, teams maintain brand consistency with complete oversight of where assets are stored and accessed.

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Enhanced User Experience

• Form Builder Improvements: Enjoy a smoother, more responsive configuration process with the latest refinements to Form Builder.
• UI Fixes: Download popups are now perfectly aligned when the back button is removed, ensuring a polished, professional experience every time.

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Discover the new standard in creative asset management – where flexibility meets control – in GraFx Studio v1.29!

Ready to simplify and supercharge your team’s creative process? Try out the new simultaneous upload and browse features today!

Custom Forms, Your Way: Introducing the GraFx Studio UI Form Builder

Designing for others just got a whole lot easier. The new User Interface Form Builder in CHILI GraFx Studio empowers Template Designers to take full control of the end-user experience – no code required.

Whether you’re streamlining workflows for global teams or clarifying creative requests for clients, the Form Builder lets you decide exactly what users see and how they interact with your Smart Templates in My Projects.

What Sets the Form Builder Apart?

• Customizable Input Panels – Choose which sections – like Data Sources, Layouts, and Variables – are visible to each user.
• Tailored Guidance – Rename sections and add help text, eliminating confusion and ensuring every brand guideline is followed.
• Seamless User Experience – Enable or disable features like layout selection and resizing, all while previewing the end-user interface in real time.
• Frictionless Personalization – Hide unnecessary options to keep things clean, focused, and on-brand every time.

Why You’ll Love It:

Picture this: Your local marketers open My Projects and see only what’s relevant to them – no clutter, no questions, just an intuitive form that guides them through personalization. Faster turnarounds, fewer errors, and complete brand control – all thanks to an experience you configured in seconds.

Release Highlights

• Full Layout Control: Define exactly what your users see and do in My Projects.
• Real-Time Interface Preview: Instantly see changes as you configure the form.
• Mobile-Ready: Improved support for seamless media switching on mobile devices.
• Smoother Workflows: Plus, bug fixes for a glitch-free Run mode experience.

Ready for next-level template management? Explore the Form Builder and reimagine how end users engage with your Smart Templates in GraFx Studio.

Bring Your Photoshop Creations into GraFx Studio

Introducing the GraFx Studio Exporter for Adobe® Photoshop®

Ready to take your creative workflows to the next level? We’re excited to unveil an all-new, experimental plugin designed to make it easier than ever to bring your Adobe® Photoshop® projects directly into GraFx Studio as Smart Templates.

Transform your Photoshop designs into dynamic, reusable templates – without leaving your favorite tools!

Why You’ll Love It

• Lightning-fast multi-artboard export – Effortlessly export multiple artboards of the same size as multi-page GraFx Studio templates. Perfect for complex projects, presentations, or digital publications.
• Creative confidence, guaranteed – Preflight checks flag unsupported features and suggest smart fixes or seamless PDF conversion for flawless results every time.
• All your creative assets, perfectly preserved – Enjoy robust support for blending modes, vector shapes, and RGB/CMYK color modes, ensuring your designs look exactly as you intended.
• Streamlined workflow – Export all unique document colors as versatile GraFx Studio color resources, and automatically skip hidden layers for a cleaner finish.

⚡ This plugin is available in Experimental mode – get early access to the latest innovation and help shape its future! Learn more about Experimental releases.

Ready to Get Started?

• The GraFx Studio Photoshop Exporter works with Adobe® Photoshop® 2024 and 2025, with ongoing testing on version 25.0 (January 2025).

Pro Tip: Want to see how easy it is to convert other Adobe documents? Check out our handy guides for converting Photoshop files and InDesign documents into GraFx Studio Smart Templates!

Turn your Photoshop brilliance into shareable, flexible templates – right inside GraFx Studio. Get started today!

Exciting Updates in CHILI GraFx v1.28: Enhanced Performance, Flexibility & Mobile Experience!

Discover What's New in CHILI GraFx v1.28!

Get ready for a smoother, faster, and even more powerful visual content automation experience with our latest CHILI GraFx release! Here’s what you can look forward to:

✨ Enhanced Features for Maximum Productivity

• Customizable Brand Kits: Now you can easily remove unnecessary styles from your Brand Kits, giving you more flexibility and control over your brand assets.
• Optimized Mobile View: Enjoy a seamless workflow on any device. Our mobile improvements mean on-the-go editing and approvals have never been easier.
• Lightning-Fast Performance: We've dialed up the speed, ensuring CHILI GraFx is more reliable and responsive than ever – so you can focus on creating, not waiting.
• Smarter SDK Integration: Integrate CHILI GraFx into your systems with greater efficiency, thanks to our enhanced Software Development Kit.

Bugfixes for a Flawless Experience

• Smooth Media Management: Issues with specific media folder names are a thing of the past – organization is now effortless.
• Reliable Form Builder Defaults: Creating forms is more intuitive with properly set default options every time.

Check out CHILI GraFx v1.28 today and experience creative automation at its best! Questions or feedback? Let us know and let's create something amazing together!

Smarter Templates: Automated Copy Cleanup for Word-Perfect Content Production

Nothing slows down automated content production like awkward gaps and empty lines from missing data. With GraFx Studio v1.28, your Smart Templates just got smarter:

Empty variables? The paragraph disappears – instantly and automatically.

This new release ensures your automated assets always look polished and professional, even when certain data fields (like a missing product description, disclaimer, or promo code) aren’t available. No more empty spaces or broken layouts – your copy flows naturally, every single time.

What’s in the release:

• Automatic Paragraph Removal: If a variable is empty, GraFx Studio now simply eliminates the entire paragraph for you – no manual clean-up needed
• Cleaner Automation at Scale: Run high-volume, variable-driven campaigns with confidence – every layout looks intentional and on-brand
• Engineered for Speed & Stability: Performance upgrades and bug fixes mean you get more done, with fewer hiccups

How it works

Automating at scale? Just set your template to remove paragraphs linked to empty variables. From digital ads to catalogs, your designs stay “client-ready” automatically.

Experience frictionless, high-velocity production with the new GraFx Studio – where smart automation delivers professional results, no matter what your data looks like.

Introducing GraFx Genie Vision: Smarter. Sharper. More Powerful.

Experience a new era of visual intelligence with GraFx Genie Vision! Our latest update supercharges your creative workflow, delivering even smarter image insights and precision recognition – so you can focus on what matters most: results.

✨ What’s New: See More, Do More

Enhanced Contextual Recognition: Now, Genie Vision recognizes a broader range of objects – like houses and buildings – allowing you to pinpoint assets with unprecedented accuracy. Whether you’re managing real estate images or cityscapes, you’ll find exactly what you need, faster.

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What’s Improved: Sharper Person Detection & Reliable Results

• Person Detection: Enjoy more reliable tagging and identification, making it seamless to curate people-focused collections.
• Logo Detection Removed: Say goodbye to false positives! We’ve eliminated logo detection for cleaner, more relevant search results.
• Eye Detection Upgrades: Genie Vision now locates points-of-interest on faces with even greater accuracy for stunning, perfectly framed results, every time.

Note: These improvements apply to new assets or those never processed before - so your freshest content gets all the benefits instantly!

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Maximize Genie Vision with Smart Crop

Ready to harness next-level composition? Dive into:

• Smart Crop concept pages
• Smart Crop how-to guides

GraFx Genie Vision: Set your creative vision free. Try the upgrade now!

Introducing GraFx Brand Kits: One-Click Brand Consistency Across Every Design

Your brand, everywhere – beautifully consistent. GraFx Brand Kits are here to make on-brand creative production faster (and easier) than ever before.

Define your brand once. Apply it everywhere.

Build your Brand Kit in GraFx Studio to centralize your core brand ingredients: logos and imagery, color palettes, fonts, and both character and paragraph styles. Now every designer – and every template – can instantly stay on-brand, no matter how fast you’re creating or how often your assets evolve.

What does this mean for you?

• Lightning-fast template creation: Choose your Brand Kit, and every template inherits the right styles and elements – no more manual setup or brand guidelines hunting.
• Always on-brand: Scale up creative production with total confidence. Every team, every output, fully aligned.
• Effortless updates: Tweak your Brand Kit and see changes reflected instantly across future design work.

Explore GraFx Brand Kits and see how easy world-class brand control can be.

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GraFx Studio v1.27 Release Highlights

✍️ Next-Level Text & Fonts

• Text Stroke: Make typography pop with sharp, precisely-rendered outlines – perfect in the editor and in print/PDF. Fine-tune the look for impactful, readable text anywhere.
• Indic-Language Support: Go global with native support for Devanagari and more, enabling inclusive design for diverse audiences.

⚡ Designer Productivity Upgrades

• Sticky Variable Settings: Rename variables without losing your place or settings panels - keeping workflows smooth and efficient.

🔧 Engine Enhancements

• Auto-Extraction of Translatable Strings: Templates are more localization – ready than ever.
• Smoother Canvas Repaints: Enjoy crisper visuals and faster, more fluid editing experiences.

🐛 Fixes & Polish

• Template previews now perfectly match final output.
• PDF text strokes retain perfect alignment.
• "Save As" always includes your chosen file name.
• No more orphaned styles after undo.
• General performance and stability boosts.

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With GraFx Brand Kits and the latest GraFx Studio improvements, creative teams can scale faster, produce more on-brand content, and go global with freshly streamlined workflows.

Happy creating!

GraFx Studio v1.26: Global-Ready, More Precise, and Effortless Design Automation

Our latest release of GraFx Studio brings your creative automation to the next level, making the platform even more accessible, intuitive, and powerful – no matter where or how you work.

🌏 Create Without Language Limits

Say hello to true global reach! GraFx Studio now fully supports Indic scripts like Hindi (and more), with accurate shaping and rendering for complex characters. It's never been easier to create on-brand content in every market, language, and script – including right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.

🎨 Design Smarter, Crop Faster

• Per-Asset Cropping Refined: Enhanced tools give you pixel-perfect control for every asset, with reliable previews so you can see every change – no surprises at output.
• Multi-Frame Visibility Controls: In one click, show or hide multiple frames to streamline your canvas and focus on what matters.
• Accurate Color Every Time: The color picker now displays both name and hex values, so you choose (and confirm) exactly the right brand colors, instantly.

🗂️ Asset Management, Reimagined

• Smarter Metadata Mapping: We've overhauled the mapping pop-up for easier navigation – find and connect data fields with confidence.
• GraFx Brand Kits: Say goodbye to “GraFx Stylekits” – all your brand assets live in the new GraFx Brand Kits, for clear, consistent brand governance.

💡 UI Improvements to Keep You Flowing

• Contextual Tooltips: Get instant, in-place help while reviewing or editing, so your team moves from question to answer – without missing a beat.
• Placeholder Guidance for Variables: Unclear where to enter content? Multiline variable fields now feature placeholder text, making template usage self-explanatory.
• Field Auto-Grow: Variable and text fields expand smoothly as you type, so you always see exactly what you’re working on.
• Localized Variable and Layout Names: Template UIs are now accessible in your team’s language.
• Min/Max Helper Text: Layout size controls now show allowed ranges – no more trial and error.
• Flawless Image Uploads: Strict min/max constraints and error handling for asset uploads to ensure print- and web-ready results every time.
• Timeline and Layout Fixes: Animation and layout tools are more precise and reliable than ever.

CHILI GraFx Studio v1.26 brings a boost for every creative workflow, letting your team design and automate like global pros with unmatched ease and precision. Ready to create without limits? Try the latest features with a free CHILI GraFx Discovery environment – branding just got smarter, faster, and more universal.

GraFx Publisher: Faster Moves & Seamless Data—A Smoother Experience Awaits!

Introducing the Latest Updates to GraFx Publisher

We're excited to bring you the newest enhancements to GraFx Publisher, designed to streamline your workflow and deliver even more reliability for your publishing projects!

What’s New & Improved?

• Lightning-Fast Organization: Moving folders and files in the back-office is now quicker and more dependable. Effortlessly rearrange your content with confidence – no waiting or hiccups!

Smoother and More Reliable

• Tree Level Assurance: Enjoy peace of mind knowing that folder structure limits are now always enforced as expected, keeping your projects neat and organized.
• Google Sheets Integration – Now Flawless: We’ve fixed authentication issues that could block your Google Sheets data connection. Now, bringing dynamic data into your pages is seamless and dependable.

Make the most of GraFx Publisher’s power and flexibility – your streamlined publishing journey starts here!

Let Everyone Upload Their Own Images: Branded Personalization at Scale

Now anyone can make every template their own. With the new Custom Image Upload feature in CHILI GraFx Studio (v1.25), you can empower users to upload their images directly into your branded templates – unlocking a new level of personalization and creative freedom.

How It Works:

• Template designers can enable image upload – from logos and team photos to unique artwork, end-users can insert personal visuals right in the Studio UI.
• Perfect for letting franchisees add local team shots, for campaign teams to insert fresh product photos, or for any situation where user-generated content drives engagement and authenticity.
• Choose whether users can browse your DAM, upload their own, or coming-soon, combine both for ultimate flexibility.

Use Cases:

• Localize event collateral with real team photos in minutes
• Give resellers self-serve access to co-branded marketing material
• Run contests or UGC-driven campaigns that pull images straight from your audience

Release Highlights

• User-Powered Personalization: Every asset can be unique, on demand
• Seamless Experience: Direct image upload in the Studio—no jumping between platforms
• Brand Control: Designers set the rules; users add the personal touch

Behind the Scenes Improvements

• Faster load times for large templates
• Smoother, more reliable sequence handling

Give your teams, partners, or customers the power to create assets that truly resonate. See how to enable Image Upload for your templates.

Start building memorable, hyper-personalized designs—powered by GraFx Studio today.

Take Control of Cropping with GraFx Studio v1.24!

✨ Unleash Precision with Cropping Power in GraFx Studio!

Image perfection, on your terms. With GraFx Studio v1.24, cropping is smarter – and more customizable – than ever before. Whether you’re designing dynamic templates or perfecting details, our latest release puts the power of pixel-perfect storytelling right at your fingertips.

Manual Crop Override: Your Vision, Locked In

Want absolute control over how your visuals are framed? Now, Template Designers can lock specific images to a manual crop, even when using automated Smart Crop modes. That means:

• Every time you use the image in that specific layout, your chosen crop is perfectly preserved.
• Effortless automation, plus the finesse of a human touch – so every asset looks its best, no matter who loads it.

See how “Manual Crop Override” works →

How to set it up with image fill properties →

Smart Crop Previews: See the Difference Instantly

No more guesswork. Instantly preview how your assets will be cropped – directly from the asset details in your workspace. The result? Faster workflows, more confidence, and fewer interruptions.

Smoother, Faster, Better

• Enhanced stability and performance for seamless media processing.
• Continuous improvements to image handling and text rendering – your creative process, elevated.

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Ready for flawless crops and lightning-fast workflows? Check out GraFx Studio v1.24 and experience the next level of creative control!

Batch Output to MP4 & GIF: Scale Up Your Animated Asset Production

Ready to take dynamic content production to the next level? GraFx Studio now supports batch output for all major formats – including MP4 and GIF.

You’ll enjoy all the automation power you love for PDF, PNG, and JPG, now extended to video and animated graphics. Imagine generating hundreds or thousands of unique social posts, display ads, or email banners – each as a fully rendered MP4 or GIF – instantly and at scale.

Effortless Animation at Scale

• Turn any data source into a campaign – output a personalized MP4 or GIF for every record in your dataset
• Activate batch output for all supported formats directly in your Output Settings
• Automate delivery to teams or platforms – no more manual rendering or exporting

Built for Reliability
We've upgraded error handling for MP4 and GIF outputs, so your batch runs are just as dependable as your static assets. Confidently create high-volume animated content without extra review or rework.

Perfect for:

• Social media managers looking to push high-impact video content to every market
• Retail and ecommerce teams automating flash sale ads or personalized product animations
• Anyone ready to say goodbye to hand-crafted animation exports and hello to automated scale

Get started in minutes. Point your data, toggle your output settings, and watch GraFx Studio handle the rest – all in your favorite formats.

Reach your audience with powerful on-brand motion graphics, wherever and whenever you need them.

Seamlessly Connect GraFx Studio with Keepeek DAM – Meet Your New Media Connector!

🚀 Introducing the GraFx Studio – Keepeek Media Connector!

Open up a whole new world of creative possibilities with the latest addition to our open source Connector library, thanks to our trusted partners at Graphique Alliance.

With the Keepeek Media Connector, you can now effortlessly link your Smart Templates in GraFx Studio directly to your Keepeek Digital Asset Management (DAM) system.

Why You'll Love It

• Streamline Your Workflow: Instantly access and use your Keepeek media assets – right inside GraFx Studio.
• Boost Collaboration: Empower your team to create on-brand visuals faster, with all assets always up to date.
• Open Source Freedom: Join a growing community leveraging open Connectors for maximum flexibility.

Ready to supercharge your creative process? Discover how to connect GraFx Studio to Keepeek and unlock seamless media management today!

GraFx Studio: Effortless Batch Export to PNG & JPG is Here!

Create Brilliance at Scale: Batch Export Images with GraFx Studio

Say goodbye to manual file conversions! With our latest GraFx Studio update, you can now instantly generate batches of high-quality PNG and JPG images – right alongside your favorite PDF exports.

Simply toggle the data source option in your output settings, and watch as GraFx Studio automatically creates an image file for every record in your dataset. It's seamless, fast, and designed to supercharge your workflow.

But that's not all: we've enhanced our error handling for PNG and JPG outputs, matching the reliability you already trust for PDFs. Focus on your creativity – we'll take care of the details.

GraFx Studio v1.23: Elevate Your Designs with Arabic Support & Multi-Line Text

Create Without Limits – Introducing GraFx Studio v1.23

The latest GraFx Studio update is here to supercharge your creativity and keep your workflow smarter than ever. Version 1.23 is packed with game-changing features and enhancements – designed to help you communicate across languages, manage complex templates, and enjoy a smoother design experience from start to finish.

What’s new in GraFx Studio v1.23?

Seamless Multi-Line Text

-   Add rich, multi-line text variables to your templates for maximum flexibility. Whether it’s a quote, address, or anything in between, your text looks great and stays organized every time.
-   [Learn how to use multi-line text variables →](https://docs.chiligrafx.com/GraFx-Studio/guides/template-variables/multi-line-text/)

Arabic Language & RTL Support
- Your designs, now in Arabic! With right-to-left text rendering and beautiful ligature support, GraFx Studio empowers you to create culturally-relevant, accessible content for Arabic-speaking audiences—effortlessly.

Consistent Output for Designers & Users
- Enjoy peace of mind. All template output is now streamlined and limited to Run mode in the designer workspace, ensuring reliability and predictable results for everyone.

Enhanced Frame Visibility Controls
- Get clearer template management with new yellow eye icons marking frame visibility overrides—easy to spot, easier to reset with layout inheritance controls.

Smarter Page Navigation in Design Mode
- Effortlessly switch between pages on multi-page templates using new navigation controls right on your canvas.

Faster, Sharper Image Loading
- Experience improved image loading with enhanced media connector performance and upgraded image preview visuals.

Extra Performance & Usability Fixes
- Enjoy a more reliable design platform with a suite of bug fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements.

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Upgrade to GraFx Studio v1.23 today and bring your multi-language, multi-line design visions to life.

Ready to create without borders?

CHILI GraFx Environment API: Smoother Asset Management, Now Better than Ever

Accelerate Your Creative Workflow with the Latest Environment API Enhancements

The CHILI GraFx team is excited to announce important updates to the Environment API – delivering an even more streamlined and reliable experience for managing your design assets.

What's New?

• Clearer Media Support: Easily upload images with confidence! The Environment API now fully supports image/png and image/jpeg formats, so your assets are always ready and compatible.
• Smarter File Management: Keep your projects light and efficient. All external asset uploads are now capped at a versatile 10MB – perfect for high-quality images without slowing you down.

Improved Stability & Usability

• Effortless Resource Management: Searching for assets just got easier! Enhanced filtering ensures you find exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
• Flawless Organization: Say goodbye to upload snags. Special characters in file and folder names are now handled seamlessly – your library stays organized and accessible.

Ready to experience more reliable, intuitive asset management?

👉 Dive into the upgraded Environment API documentation and discover what’s new!

GraFx Studio Unveils Powerful New Adobe® InDesign® Plugin Update – Boost Your Creative Workflow!

Elevate Your InDesign Projects with the Latest GraFx Studio Plugin Update!

Supercharge your design process with the newest GraFx Studio plugin release for Adobe® InDesign®! We’ve packed this update with must-have features to help creative pros like you work smarter, faster, and with more precision than ever before.

Here’s What’s New:

Intuitive Image Alignment Controls
- Gain ultimate control over how images are positioned within frames. Achieve the perfect fit and alignment to bring your design vision to life, effortlessly.

Smarter, Safer Exports with Preflight Checks

• Say goodbye to costly mistakes! Our enhanced exporter preflight checks help you catch issues before they become problems, ensuring flawless output every time.

Stunning Visual Effects with Blending Options

• Get creative with new blending capabilities now supported during export. Easily add depth and sophistication to your layouts.

Enhanced Design Validation

• The expanded preflight system means broader, more robust checks for total peace of mind and print-ready results.

Polished Performance & Bug Fixes

• Enjoy a smoother experience thanks to numerous general improvements and enhancements under the hood.

Ready to experience a transformative upgrade for your InDesign workflow? Check out the full plugin documentation for all the details.

Upgrade your GraFx Studio plugin today and unlock next-level creative control!

Canto Connector for GraFx Studio: Automated Creative Production for your Canto DAM assets

Managing assets in Canto has always been easy. Now putting them to work in your visual content automation is too!

The new CHILI GraFx Connector for Canto is a direct pipeline between your DAM and design automation – bringing approved assets and metadata straight into GraFx Studio.No downloads. No rework. Just seamless, on-brand production at scale.

Real-World Use Case
Here’s how it works when your team manages assets in Canto (think product photos, logos, and lifestyle imagery, etc.):

• A designer opens a Smart Template in GraFx Studio and pulls in approved visuals directly from Canto
• Metadata, like SKUs or promo dates, flows automatically into the layout
• Local teams personalize the template for their region in just a few clicks

That’s self-serve design, powered by your DAM-approved assets.

Release Highlights

• Direct Asset Access – Browse and place Canto assets in GraFx Studio
• Smart Metadata Sync – Automatically map SKUs, pricing, categories, and more
• Localization Support – Serve the right content by market or region
• Seamless Collaboration – One connected source for designers and marketers

Already using Canto? Try the Canto Connector for GraFx Studio in a free CHILI GraFx Discovery Environment – we’ll set you up to test how seamlessly your assets and metadata flow into Smart Templates, using your own instance of Canto.

Not using Canto? No problem. CHILI GraFx supports a growing ecosystem of community-created Connectors for other leading DAM platforms and data sources too.