Converting a (static) document into a CHILI publisher smart template take a multi-facetted approach.

How smart your template will get, depends on your setup.

CHILI publisher provides several tools and concepts to Smarten your template.

Converters

Convert your Desktop App Document into CHILI publisher

Variables

In a lot of cases, a good start is to add variables to your document.
Allow end-users to input on the fly, or connect with a datasource.

Provide not 1, but several output sizes in 1 document. This enables you to have only one document, one source of truth, but several output sizes.

If several output sizes is not enough, you can make your layout dynamic.

Don’t design with a fixed size in mind, but give your frame relative dimansions, relative to the size of your document.

Make sure your image fits the frame, once the frame resized due to your document resizing.