Glossary

Anchor: A tie between a frame and its page or another frame, so it moves with it: a body anchored below a headline moves down when the headline grows. See anchors.

API key: A secret your systems send with every request to the API. It acts for your organisation only, within its scopes. See authentication.

Batch: Many documents from one template in one request, one per set of values, rendered in the background. See batches.

Bleed: Artwork that runs past the page’s edge, so nothing white shows where the printed sheet is trimmed.

Brand kit: An organisation’s shared colours, styles, images and components, used by many templates and changed in one place. See brand kits.

Component: A group of frames kept once in a template and placed many times as instances; changing it changes every instance. See components.

Field: A named input of a template, text, number, choice, switch or image, that each document fills with its own value. See fields.

Field group: A folder of fields, for the people filling them in. Values stay keyed by field name.

Frame: A rectangle on a page that holds text, an image, a shape or a component instance.

Job: One document rendered in the background: submitted, then followed until its output can be downloaded, or told by webhook. See jobs and webhooks.

Output: A rendered file, kept for a while to download.

Package: A .paprika file: a template with the fonts, images and profiles it needs, to move between the editor, the API and people. See packages.

Preflight: The checks a print file must pass to be a PDF/X-4 file. See colour and print.

Printing condition: The press, inks and paper a print template is made for, described by a colour profile.

Sample values: The values a template shows while it is designed, and with which it is checked.

Scope: What an API key may do: render, publish or manage keys.

Spot colour: An ink of its own, printed on a plate of its own, with a CMYK alternate for the screen and process printing.

Style: A named set of text settings: a paragraph style for whole paragraphs, a character style for words within one. See styles.

Swatch: A named colour of a template: RGB, CMYK or spot.

Template: A reusable design: pages, frames and fields, from which documents are made with different values.

Template version: A published template, numbered, which never changes; documents are always made from one. See templates and versions.

Tenant: An organisation using Paprika, with its own templates, fonts, outputs and keys, kept apart from every other.

Tier: A level of service, which decides a tenant’s share of the renderers when work queues up. See scheduler and tiers.

Values: What a document fills its template’s fields with, sent as JSON keyed by field name. See values.