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February 20, 2023
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Very Interested in Building Out Web-To-Print and VDP Integration for AE - Is This Possible?

  • February 20, 2023
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Hi, I am excited to be on this journey with Adobe. I am a non-developer and I have struggled with finding a way to embed an Online Editor (AE) into my website and application. I believe I may have found the answer with the AE Embed SDK. But I am not sure.

 

Will it be possible for me to enable the AE Embed so that it integrates with InDesign Teplates and InDesign Server and also VDP and/or Data Merge?

 

If so that is what I am building. Using the AE Embed Online Editor would allow me to launch my Web-To-Print SaaS quickly. Please advise if this is indeed possible?

 

Thanks,

 

Danté Hamilton

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Ruben Rincon - DevEx
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
March 10, 2023

Hello Dante, thanks for reaching out and I remember you from our kick off event. I am myself not expert with the InDesign Templates and Server, but I can speak about the general use cases of the Embed SDK.

 

The embed SDK as it exists today, is a component that is meant to be embeded within your own website and in your own web domain. It is important that you can control that web domain as you will need to register it in the integration configuration.

 

Given the above, it allows the users of your website to take advantage of Adobe Express to perform specific tasks for assets, such as removing backgrounds, etc. So it works as input - transform - output for assets in your web domain.

 

You can certainly build your own workflows in which you integrate to different systems from your own website. Imagine that you integrate to System A to extract images, then with the Embed SDK your users can remove background of that image, then use system C with the altered image.

 

Notice that the Embed SDK is not an automation tool, but instead your users need to interact with it.

Hope this is helpful, please visit the Embed SDK page to know more about it.

MyDTCCatalog
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April 20, 2023

Hi Ruben,

 

My apologies for the late reply. Thanks for your insight and response.

 

Danté