Signage Editor

The Signage Editor is where you turn course data into the graphics players see — Tee Signs next to each tee pad and Info Boards at the entrance. The same templates and themes you set up here also flow into your Caddie Books, so anything you publish or print stays visually consistent. The editor pulls hole numbers, distances, par, layouts, and fairway shapes straight from the course you've already built, and renders them through a Signage Template and Theme of your choosing.

This page is a work in progress — the sections below cover what already ships well. Deeper guides for templates, themes, and exports will land here as those flows stabilize.

The Signages tab

The Signages tab in the signage editor sidebar lists every tee sign and info board on the course in one place. Click a row to focus that signage on the canvas, or expand the panel with the chevron in the tab header to switch the list into a full editable table where you can edit names, notes, QR codes, layouts, templates, aspect ratios, and images.

The table supports a free-text Filter that matches on name, hole number, template, notes, QR, and layout names, plus chip filters for Template and (when the course has more than one) Layouts. Select-all only toggles the rows that are currently visible, so filters and bulk actions compose naturally.

Positioning a signage on the map

Every tee sign and info board frames an area of the course map — the map you see on the printed sign is exactly what its frame covers on the canvas. To adjust the framing, first focus the signage: step through holes with the hole navigation, or click the signage's row in the Signages tab. The selected signage shows a frame with handles around it on the canvas:

Move — drag anywhere on the selected signage to slide it across the map. The four-way arrow grip at its center shows it's movable.
Resize — drag a corner handle. Resizing keeps the signage's current aspect ratio; to change the ratio itself, use the Ratio picker (see Aspect ratio and print size). The size is clamped to sensible minimum and maximum limits (the editor tells you when you hit one).
Rotate — drag the round handle with the rotation arrow above the signage. For exact degrees, use the Rotation field (-180° to 180°) in the signage's details panel in the sidebar.

Each completed move, resize, or rotate is a single undo entry, so one undo takes the signage back to where it was before the gesture.

Two buttons in the canvas toolbar help when you've adjusted too far:

Recenter view — re-frames the canvas view on the selected signage without changing the signage itself.
Auto-fit signage — recalculates the signage's map area from the course content (tees, targets, and fairway paths on the visible layouts). The button highlights when some of that content sits outside the current framing.

Select rows with the row checkboxes (or the header checkbox to select everything visible). The selection bar at the top of the toolbar shows the count and an Actions dropdown.

The Actions menu has these operations:

Set main image

Apply the same main logo to every selected signage that has a main-logo slot. The dialog shows a live breakdown of how many will be set, replaced, or skipped, so you know what the Save button will do before you click it. A Use Parkdly default button in the footer resets the main image on the selected signages in one batch — sponsor logos are preserved.

Set QR code

Apply a single QR URL and/or label across the selection. Each field has a checkbox, so you can update only the URL, only the label, or both. An empty field clears that field on the selected signages. A Clear QR from all button in the footer wipes both fields on every selected signage that currently has a QR code set.

The dialog also offers a Use public page URL shortcut so you can point all the selected signages at your public project page in one click.

Change template

Switch the template across the selection. This action requires the selection to be all tee signs or all info boards — mixed selections aren't supported, since the two have different template lists.

As you click through the templates, a live summary tells you how many signages will change, how many already use the picked template, and flags anything that needs attention (bounds that will be repositioned, layouts that will be capped). Confirm with Apply to switch the template only, or Apply & Reposition to also auto-fit the bounds to the new template.

Change aspect ratio

Apply one output shape across the selection. Unlike Change template, this works on a mixed selection of tee signs and info boards — they share the same ratios. The summary shows how many will change; signages on a fixed-ratio template are skipped.

Undo for bulk actions

Each Actions menu operation creates one undo entry that covers every signage it touched. Press undo once and the whole batch reverts.

Aspect ratio and print size

Most templates let you choose the signage's shape — its aspect ratio — from the Ratio column in the signages table or the signage's details panel. Options are named by shape with example print sizes: A-series, US Letter, US Legal, 4:5, 3:4 and 2:3 posters, plus banner ratios. Map templates also accept a custom width-to-height ratio.

When you change the ratio, the signage's map area reframes automatically to the new shape — no distortion or cropping.

New signage starts at a sensible default for the course's units — US Letter on courses measured in feet, A-series on metric courses — and a hole you add later inherits the ratio the rest of the course already uses. You can change any of it afterwards, one signage at a time or in bulk.

On export, each shape offers its real physical sizes — A4/A3, US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), 9 × 12 / 18 × 24 posters, and so on — and the PDF comes out at exactly that size.

Logos and images

Signages carry two kinds of logo: a main logo (the project or club mark, one per signage where the template has a slot) and sponsor logos (one or more, depending on the template). Set them per-signage from the details panel, or across many at once with Set main image. Accepted formats are PNG, JPEG, WebP, and SVG.

How a logo or image exports depends on what's in the file:

Simple SVG logos (solid colors and shapes, including the class-based <style> colors Adobe Illustrator exports) come out as crisp vector — razor-sharp at any print size, with their real colors.
SVG logos with effects (gradients, filters, text, embedded photos) export as a flat image — still faithful to how they look on the canvas, just not infinitely scalable.
Photographic images (background photos, course maps) are compressed in the export so the PDF stays a reasonable size; logos keep their transparent edges.

You don't choose the method — Parkdly picks the best one per file automatically. For the sharpest logos, prepare the artwork as described in Custom SVG: preparing your file; the same guidance applies to signage logos.

Customizing a single signage

Most of the time you want every signage on a course to share the same look — that's what the course-level Theme is for. When one signage needs to break from the rest (a sponsored hole that uses brand colors, an info board where the notes need to read larger from a distance), you can customize that one signage without touching the course theme.

There are two ways to open the customization editor:

From the Theme tab — switch to the Signage subtab inside the Theme tab while the signage you want to customize is selected on the canvas. The panel updates to follow your selection.
From the Signages table — open the Theme column on the row you want to customize. A popover with the same editor opens inline, anchored to that row.

The editor has two sections:

Typography

Override the size of H1, H2, H3, and body text in this signage's notes. Each field starts as Default, inheriting whatever the course theme uses; click the field to set a specific size (xs, sm, md, lg, xl) for this signage only. The × button next to a customized size resets just that field.

Colors

Override the primary, primary foreground, secondary, secondary foreground, background, and text colors used in this signage. Each color field works the same way: it shows Default when inheriting, and switches to a color picker plus × button once you customize it.

Use Reset all in the editor to clear every override at once and return the signage to the course theme.

Coming soon

The following will be documented here as the flows settle:

Templates — what each tee sign and info board template renders, and which features it supports.
Themes — colors, fonts, and how layout colors flow into signage.
Exports — generating PDFs, PNGs, JPGs, and the bundled Export Signages ZIP.

In the meantime, see Export & Share for the export options that already ship.