Adobe Illustrator Extension - Plug-in

Adobe Illustrator is an external application for design and the application itself is not part of the license for Infor PLM for Fashion. Infor provides an extension or plugin for Adobe Illustrator CC that is part of the license, allowing designers to create styles, materials, and trims in the extension, and integrate those to PLM for Fashion. Users log in using the right security protocols.

The extension installer can be downloaded from the application itself, and is backward and forward compatible.

Features of the PLM for Fashion extension for Adobe Illustrator include:

Templates

Style templates - pretagging for artboards and layers

Styles

  • Creating new styles and adding basic PLM for Fashion overview information
  • Creating new styles and associating the images of existing AI files to the styles and uploading them to PLM for Fashion
  • Creating new styles using templates
  • Creating new styles and generating a new AI file using layers/artboards, drawing your images and uploading them to PLM for Fashion
  • Updating styles by updating overview information and adding colorways from PLM for Fashion Color Library or Color Palettes
  • Adding colors to styles using the PLM for Fashion Color Library or Color Palettes
  • Integrates AI images (manually tagged or template) to PLM for Fashion sections
    • Style, style colorways, construction, technical information, sketches, artwork, other information
    • Upload same image to multiple image sections in PLM for Fashion
  • Access to PLM for Fashion BOMs through hyperlinks in the extension
  • Integrating the AI file as attachment in PLM for Fashion
  • Optional integration of PDF document as attachment in PLM for Fashion

Materials

  • Layers only
  • Creating new materials from existing AI files or from creating new AI files
  • Updating overview information of existing materials
  • Updating existing materials by updating overview information and adding colorways from PLM for Fashion Color Library or Color Palettes
  • Integrating images and AI files

Trims

  • Layers only
  • Creating new trims from existing AI files or from creating new AI files
  • Updating existing trims by updating overview information and adding colorways from PLM for Fashion Color Library or Color Palettes
  • Integrating images and AI files

User experience for Adobe Illustrator Plugin

  • Search styles and materials
  • Filter styles and materials
  • Use keyboard or mouse in most cases
  • Supported languages for user interface: English, French, Spanish, simplified Chinese, and Turkish
  • Upload a .ai or a .pdf (if needed) file to PLM for Fashion
  • Configure the view (what fields to show in Adobe Illustrator Extension with PLM for Fashion Manage Views