The vocabulary the rest of the manual assumes. Read this once and the other pages will make sense.

Platemaker's core model is the virtual strip: your ordered input images are treated as one tall image, scaled to a single target width, and then cut into fixed-height slices. Nothing is processed page by page.

→ Workspaces

→ Projects

→ Projects

→ Canvas profiles

→ Output profiles

→ Templates

→ Rendering

Workspace  (.platemaker.json)
├── Canvas profiles ────── generate ──► Templates  (<workspace>/templates/*.psd|*.png)
├── Output profiles
└── Projects (chapters)
    ├── input files (ordered)  ──┐
    ├── assigned canvas profiles │
    ├── selected output profile  ├──► render ──► output slices
    └── output directory  ───────┘

See also: Quick start · File statuses · Main window