Design Editor

CE.SDK’s full-featured multi-page design composition surface, suited for building templates, marketing materials, and brand tools. It is the most general-purpose of the Starter Kit configurations, exposing the complete range of CE.SDK editing capabilities: multi-page layouts, image and shape blocks, rich text formatting, template placeholders, text variables, role-based editing, asset library access, and export to PNG, JPEG, PDF, PDF/X, and other supported formats.

Multi-Page Documents

Page add, reorder, duplicate, and delete. Page overview mode for quickly navigating and evaluating multi-page designs without entering the full editing surface.

Block Manipulation

Full control over images, shapes, text, stickers, and grouped elements.

Alignment & Snapping

Alignment, distribution, and snapping tools for precisely positioning and spacing multiple elements, with configurable snapping guides that activate when dragging blocks near alignment targets.

Template Authoring

Placeholders, locked elements, and role/scope configuration for creating guided design experiences.

Text Variables

Dynamic content that can be populated programmatically or swapped at export time, supporting personalization and data merge workflows.

Asset Library

Images, stickers, shapes, filters, fonts, templates, and custom sources via the configurable asset library.

Layer Panel

Manages stacking order and visibility in complex compositions with many overlapping elements.

Plugin Support

Background Removal and Vectorizer surface as Canvas Menu actions on image blocks. The Design Editor is the primary context for most official plugins.

Print-Ready Export

Export to PDF/X with CMYK and spot color support, alongside PNG, JPEG, WebP, and standard PDF.

Brand Portals & DAM Platforms

A central design team authors locked templates and regional or local teams adapt them within defined constraints. The Creator/Adopter model maps directly to this structure: creators lock brand-critical elements (logo placement, color palette, typefaces) while adopters swap imagery, edit copy, and export without the ability to break the template. Optimizely used this pattern to serve 1,000+ customers with a brand template editor, with deal close rates and customer retention both improving after the feature launched.

Marketing & Creative Agencies

Agencies producing campaign assets across multiple formats and clients. The Design Editor’s multi-page support means a single scene file can hold every size variant of social posts, banners, email headers, and print ads, with shared brand elements. Template workflows let junior team members or clients make approved variations without a senior designer touching every asset.

Web-to-Print & Print-on-Demand Platforms

Users design business cards, posters, flyers, brochures, or stationery and the output must be print-ready. PDF/X export with CMYK and spot color support means the Design Editor produces files that go directly to production without a separate prepress step.

Internal Creative Platforms

Enterprises (particularly retail chains, franchise networks, and automotive groups) where dozens or hundreds of locations need to produce locally adapted versions of centrally approved creative. Digitas Germany used CE.SDK to build a central creative portal powering 140+ dealer campaigns across multiple automotive brands, giving dealers the ability to create localized content within a brand template framework.

SaaS Products with Design-as-a-Feature

Presentation tools, social media schedulers, email builders, and document editors where the host product needs a design surface as one component of a larger workflow rather than as the core product. The Design Editor integrates as an embedded panel or modal, inheriting the host product’s navigation and auth, while CE.SDK handles all rendering and editing logic.

E-Learning & Certification Platforms

Platforms that generate certificates, diplomas, and course completion assets (one template, personalized at scale using text variables and Data Merge) without manual design work per recipient.

Web (Vanilla JS/TS, React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, SvelteKit, Next.js, Nuxt.js), iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Electron, macOS.