Method for providing digital content
A method of delivering digital content for use on an electronic cutting machine. The method includes displaying at least one themed project in a rich internet application, where the themed project has at least one glyph of a glyph collection. The method further includes providing access to the rich internet application over a network and offering purchased access to the glyph collection. Any glyphs of the glyph collection can be added to the themed project. The themed project is cuttable on an electronic cutting machine in communication with the rich internet application.
1. A method of delivering digital content for use on an electronic cutting machine, the method comprising:
accessing, by a user computing device in communication with the electronic cutting machine and associated with a user of the electronic cutting machine, a rich internet application executing on a cloud computing device in communication with the user computing device via a network, the rich internet application providing:
at least one design creation tool for manipulating glyphs cuttable on the electronic cutting machine; and
the user membership access to a club portion of the rich internet application, the club portion containing club projects;
while the user computing device is accessing the rich internet application:
displaying, by the user computing device, one of the club projects, the displayed one of the club projects including a glyph collection;
receiving, at the user computing device, a user initiated command to perform a cutting operation for cutting at least one glyph selected by the user from the glyph collection of the displayed one of the club projects; and
initiating, by the user computing device, execution of the user initiated command to cause the electronic cutting machine to perform the cutting operation by cutting the at least one glyph selected by the user from a cutting material.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rich internet application executes on a cloud client of a cloud computing scheme.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising wherein the rich internet application offers purchased access to the club projects project for cutting on the electronic cutting machine in communication with the rich internet application.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising assessing a service fee for member-to-member usage of the club projects.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the club projects comprise at least one of an arrangement of glyphs and placeholders for glyphs.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one design creation tool provided by the rich internet application comprises at least one of cutting, copying, pasting, kerning for moving glyphs together, glyph welding for merging glyphs together, glyph sizing, glyph orienting, glyph slanting, glyph grouping, glyph ungrouping, glyph compositing for combining sub-glyphs into a single glyph, glyph exploding for breaking a glyph into constituent sub-glyphs, glyph flipping about an axis, glyph layering, glyph shadowing, and setting a glyph border.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving credit card information from the user for verifying user identification.