Downloads

Related content

You can select to download all or some related content when downloading content items. You can select the related items for download or choose Select all to download all related items. Select all is limited to 100 items, but if you want to download more, you can manually select the extra items.

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Dynamic formats

Dynamic Formats can be defined for images only and are rendered on demand for the selected Content Item in Picturepark and not saved to the storage but only to a cache for the configured retention time. Dynamic formats may be Hero Images, Social Media Images, or Campaign Specials.

The benefits of dynamic rendering

• Those are customizable by the customer during operation (setup via API)

• Dynamic formats are cached (retention time configuration), so the downloader does not have to wait for frequently accessed content. 

• Picturepark does not store them on storage which saves money for the monthly storage subscription price. 

The drawback of dynamic rendering

• The download of multiple dynamic formats of the same Content Item is possible. 

• Rendering on request (lazy) may take some time until Picturepark generates the output. Picturepark will notify you when you can access the ready-to-download file.

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  You can continue working in Picturepark while waiting for your download to be ready. 

• Only available to produce images (rasterized files). 

• Costs performance of rendering microservice.  

Static formats

Static formats are created on customer creation, predefined, and rendered for every Content Item in Picturepark, saved to the storage. The benefits of static formats

• No waiting times for downloading them. Picturepark creates the format after import and every user can then directly download it.   

• You can have static formats created for all file types (based on rendering support). 

The drawback of static formats

• Costs storage, as all formats are rendered and saved on the storage.

Previews

Previews are static formats, available for File Types. 

• The standard windows server fonts are installed on our rendering server and will be applied and rendered to document previews. Any other fonts will be substituted.

• You see a file format icon when Picturepark couldn’t render a preview e.g. Indd for Indesign files.

• The original file is also available - accessing (download) the Original File can be restricted with Content Permissions. 

You cannot restrict Access/Download of previews, but it is possible that you add a watermark to Preview which is then also applied to other Formats and Thumbnails derived from the Preview. Check for formats and thumbnails if their rendering source is the Preview format to ensure that the Watermark is applied everywhere.   

Picturepark generates the following previews for supported file formats.

Create a download format/output format

The static formats are created on customer creation. Check Format Modifications for your desired settings. 

The dynamic formats are created via API: https://demo.picturepark.com/Docs/Rest/index.html#operation/OutputFormat_Create . It is recommended to test your settings using the preview operation, which allows generating a temporary preview of your desired output to validate your settings: https://demo.picturepark.com/Docs/Rest/index.html#operation/OutputFormat_RenderFormatPreview  based on the actual Content Items of your Picturepark.