Turn a flat dieline PDF into the assembled package, with its spot UV, foil and metallic board, for customer approval.
One page laid out flat: the artwork, the cut and crease lines, and any spot UV, foil or white plates. Cut and crease lines can be spot inks named like CutContour, Die, Crease or Score, or layers named Cut and Crease; failing that, red solid lines are cuts and blue, green or dashed lines are creases. Spot UV, foil and white are found by spot ink or layer name and are lifted out of the artwork, so the art beneath shows through. Page 2 of a two-page file is taken as the inside print. In the online edition your PDF is read in the browser and never uploaded.
The panels are the spaces between the cut and crease lines, and every crease with a panel on each side is a fold. A crease broken by a lock slit is still one fold, and a window cut inside a panel is a real hole. The largest panel stays still and everything else folds 90° away from the print, so the art ends up outside. Where flaps land in the same place — a glue flap under a side wall, dust flaps under the lids, a tuck behind the back — the smaller one goes inside by one board caliper. Step by step folds the body first and closes the flaps from the inside out.
White SBS prints the art as it is; kraft darkens the transparent inks with the brown board. Metallized board (silver, gold or holographic) shows through the CMYK unless white ink is underneath — from the white plate, under all printed areas, or none. Spot UV is a raised clear gloss whose height you set; it shows best over matte or soft-touch lamination. Foil follows the foil plate in the colour you pick.
Save PNG saves the view as it is. Save video records the sheet folding up step by step and a slow turn so the foil and varnish catch the light (WebM). The online edition marks both DEMO; the licensed Suite does not.