Escenic Content Engine 5.0-3
Introducing soft crops.
Soft crops is the most important feature in this release. Users of Escenic Content Studio may create several different soft crops of an image for use on different parts of the website and in different channels.
The different aspect ratios are defined by the website designers, ensuring that users the different crops always fit with the site's design. The different crops are presented with easy-to-understand names such as: "frontpage teaser", "widescreen", "square", etc. All the different crops are managed in the same view in Escenic Content Studio, making the cropping quick and effective.
This screenshot shows the editing of four different softcrops in Escenic Content Studio (the user interface is configurable, so some details may vary between installations):
The crop masks can be moved around in the image, and resized by dragging the yellow corner markers. To use the image in a story, all the content editor needs to do is to drag the image (or use a keyboard shortcut) into the story. There is no need to select the correct size or soft crop, as this is handled automatically. Updated soft crops are immedeiately available on the website and across channels.
Updates of the original image will automatically update all the soft crops, and published images will immediately be updated across all websites and channels. Updates may be done in Escenic Content Studio, using an external program (such as Adobe Photoshop, accessed from within Escenic Content Studio), or by re-importing from an external system. It is possible to restrict editing of the original image based on roles, groups and permissions, just as with other content.
As with all images, Escenic Content Engine automatically generates all the different image sizes for use on all websites and channels.
Note to developers: Every soft crop has it's own URL, and the different soft crops (and also versions/sizes) are accessed by using the logical names in the JSPs.
Escenic Content Engine 5.0-3 was released in April 2009.
