Pinup overview

Build presentation decks and printed boards as a team, with page owners, a deck master, and a Queue for proposed changes.

Alpha tool. It's early and still changing: expect things to break, and keep your own copy of anything you can't lose. What alpha means

Pinup builds presentation decks and pin-up boards: concept decks, review sets, competition boards. Each page is a fixed layout of image frames and text blocks, placed in percent of the page, so a deck can change from a screen to Letter, Tabloid, ANSI D or Arch D sheets and keep its layout.

It's made for a team. Every page can have owners, one person can be the deck master, and changes proposed by teammates or an AI assistant wait in the deck's Queue until a person executes them.

The main screen #

From top to bottom, left to right:

The top bar. Undo and Redo, the project the deck is in, and the save status. Under it, the tabs Deck, Styles, Media and Export, and at the right the deck's sheet size.
The toolbar. Project ▾, the deck's name, then the deck's theme (Glacier, Ink or Paper), sheet size, orientation and units (inches or pixels). On the right: Suggest changes, Present, New, Import, Export ▾ and Share / Snapshots.
The page rail on the left. A thumbnail of every page, numbered, with a dot for its status. + Page is at the bottom.
The canvas in the middle. The page bar, the arrange bar, then the page itself.
The panel on the right, with three tabs: Inspect, Queue and History.

With nothing selected, Inspect shows the deck: its page and image counts, the team rules, and every image in the deck. Select a block on the page to edit it there instead.

The Styles, Media and Export tabs open full-screen sheets over the deck. Click Deck, or press Esc, to go back.

Start a new deck #

From a project page #

Open the project and click + New.
Under Pinup, pick Blank or one of the templates: Concept deck, Design review set or Competition boards.

The deck opens already saved in that project. See Projects and schemes.

From inside the tool #

The tool opens on its home page. Under Start fresh, pick one:

+ Blank: an empty deck. Add pages from the page templates.
Concept deck: a finished-looking concept presentation with sample images to replace.
Design review set: image-heavy review pages, already marked in review.
Competition boards: two Arch D portrait boards, ready to print.

You can also click New in the toolbar to start a blank deck. A blank deck shows the page templates to pick your first page.

New work starts on this computer only. To file the deck with a project, open Project ▾ and click Push to a project….

Open existing work #

From the tool's home page. Click Tools in the top bar to get there. Your decks lists the deck you were last working on and the decks saved in your projects.
From Project ▾. The menu lists the decks in your projects. Click one to open it.
From a file. Click Import and pick a .pinup.json file or a deck bundle (.pinup.zip). It opens as new work on this computer. See Export and print.

Who can see it #

A deck in a project is shared with that project's people. Viewers can open it, page through it and present it, but can't change it. See People and roles.

On top of that, a deck in a project has its own team rules: a deck master, page owners, and who executes proposals. See Pages and page owners.

To share a deck with someone outside the project, use Share / Snapshots. See View-only links.

History #

The History tab is the deck's own changelog: every page added, text edited, image uploaded and Queue decision, with who did it. Tick this page only to see one page's history.

To roll the whole deck back, use its versions. See Saving and versions.

AI assistant #

An AI assistant connected through the AI connector can read a deck and propose changes. Its proposals wait in the Queue until a person executes them. See The Queue.