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InDesign and Express: the Present and Future of Documents / Images July 11, 2024 Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign is, arguably, the greatest software product of all time. It is…
Adobe Express Chooses Print Partner for Launch July 10, 2024 Today, Adobe announced that you can design and order print products directly from Express. You…
Print Reddy: How to Print from Adobe Express July 9, 2024 Adobe Express Takes Over In June of 2023 I first saw the “New” Adobe Express…
Introduction to Print Reddy for Adobe Express May 29, 2024 We are excited to announce our new, free add-on for Adobe Express, Print Reddy. Here…
SDXML: a Universal Document Model April 26, 2024 It has been nearly twenty years since Alissa Whitney and I created the first version…
Silicon Designer for Adobe Experience Manager March 25, 2024 Silicon Publishing has been building online design solutions since our inception in the year 2000:…
Document Automation for Real Estate February 7, 2024 The real estate Industry, both commercial and residential, has a strong dependency on documents. These…
Visualizing Promotional Products December 15, 2023 Graphics technology has evolved rapidly following the advent of the computer, and during the past…
Extending Adobe Express October 10, 2023 I am here in Los Angeles at the 2023 Adobe MAX conference, excited to show…
Silicon Publishing connects Adobe InDesign to the Box Content Cloud September 13, 2023 San Francisco, CA, September 13, 2023 – Silicon Publishing announces the release of Silicon Connector…
The long game of generative AI: Adobe sets the standard August 10, 2023 Adobe has publicly released Artificial Intelligence features in their software for years, from the Sensei…
How to use Silicon Connector for Box July 27, 2023 We are on the cusp of releasing Silicon Connector for Box version 3.0, ten years…
Empowering Adobe Extensibility: From Abandonment to Life July 19, 2023 We at Silicon Publishing recently attended the Adobe Developer and Partner Days 2023. We saw…
Silicon Render Service for Adobe InDesign Server June 23, 2023 Silicon Publishing has been delivering solutions using Adobe InDesign Server, since the product’s inception in…
Online Design and Editing June 5, 2023 Online editing is a powerful technology that has been steadily evolving since the World Wide…
Five ways to use AI with InDesign April 20, 2023 Adobe InDesign is the most powerful page layout tool in existence. It is also extremely…
Database Publishing March 20, 2023 Ever since database technology arrived in the 1960s, people have wanted to visualize that data.…
Web to Print March 14, 2023 In the late 1990s, the term “Web to Print” sprouted up. Like any new buzzword,…
What is DAM (Digital Asset Management) Software? January 30, 2023 Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a critical part of the publishing process for organizations around the…
A History of Adobe MAX October 18, 2022 As I enjoy the 2022 Adobe MAX Conference, it strikes me how much it’s changed…
The Importance of Design in Data Visualization May 31, 2022 Design and data may seem like two unrelated fields, and in some cases they are.…
The Meat of the Metaverse December 16, 2021 I have been a technologist for quite some time, and over the years, I’ve witnessed…
How Creative Automation is Changing Design and Content – For the Better December 9, 2021 Creative automation isn’t just for self-service in consumer goods, or mechanical pickers in warehouses, or…
Major charity revolutionizes fundraising with world-class web-to-print automation December 2, 2021 Recently, a well-known healthcare charity has been experiencing a tremendous uptick in public interest, support…
Retail Signage: Save Time and Enforce Brand with Silicon Designer November 23, 2021 Retail signage poses unique challenges for all retailers, but especially for those that are large…
Why DAM Vendors Should Leave Web To Print to the Experts November 17, 2021 Overview Web to Print, or WYSIWYG print collateral customisation has become one of the more…
When and Why Adobe InDesign Server Rules November 16, 2021 We at Silicon Publishing have been working in the database publishing and online editing space…
The Rise of “DIY” Publishing November 11, 2021 Do it yourself, or DIY, has been part of the American cultural landscape since the…
Producing Branded Collateral for Real Estate November 4, 2021 If you’re in the real estate business, you’re probably part of a large, nationwide association…
Online Editing Comes of Age October 18, 2021 Alissa Whitney and I have been building online publishing solutions since the 1990s (and since…
Updating to the Latest Adobe Creative Cloud while Maintaining Earlier Versions October 30, 2020 How do I keep previous versions of an Adobe CC application as I install the…
Towards InDesign Services: Connecting AEM as a Cloud Service to Adobe InDesign Server September 28, 2020 We may be one of the first companies ever to connect the new “Adobe Experience…
Templating meets asset management: Silicon Designer for AEM May 1, 2020 We just presented a webinar about our Silicon Designer for AEM software, and the recording…
Designing for Online Editing April 13, 2020 We just had a webinar about how designers prepare templates for online editing, and the…
How to Share Adobe InDesign Files March 6, 2020 Collaborative Authoring with Adobe InDesign We just presented a webinar on the topic of “Editing…
Free InDesign Scripts January 29, 2020 Silicon Publishing is giving away 13 scripts written by InDesign Guru Olav Martin Kvern. You…
Editing InDesign Documents Online January 13, 2020 Adobe InDesign is the tool of choice for creating high-quality print-ready documents. These days, nearly…
InDesign Server Case Study: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines December 29, 2019 In the cold winter of 2008, we were approached by a technical lead at Royal…
Silicon Designer Case Study: Printing.com December 28, 2019 Silicon Designer was announced as a product in the fall of 2009, via a press…
The Insider’s Guide to InDesign Server December 25, 2019 Here is the entire video of our Webinar, “The Insider’s Guide to InDesign Server.”
Adobe MAX 2019 and the new Silicon Designer November 22, 2019 The new Silicon Designer is scheduled for release in January of 2020. We are very…
InDesign, Word and Box seamless cloud collaboration May 7, 2019 We’ve been friends with the folks from Em Software for a long time. Just as…
Ten DAMs from the InDesign Out May 2, 2019 Eleven years ago, Silicon Publishing stumbled into an opportunity to connect Adobe InDesign to remote assets…
Photoshop as a Service December 14, 2018 Adobe Desktop Technologies Ascend to the Cloud Adobe Photoshop is the premiere desktop tool for…
Asset Management meets Online Design: Silicon Designer for AEM Assets April 2, 2018 At the Adobe Summit last week, Adobe presented our Silicon Designer for AEM as one…
Introducing LotusJS October 17, 2017 This week at the Adobe MAX conference, we at Silicon Publishing are proud to release…
Finding Truly Free Stock Images May 28, 2017 I write blog posts and create an ever-expanding amount of marketing content for our company.…
The Core Composition Engines of Web-to-Print March 13, 2017 I recently participated in a presentation at Dscoop Phoenix with three companies that I’ve known for over…
Seven Trends in Multi-Channel Communications September 14, 2016 Historically, Silicon Publishing has delivered publishing solutions across a gamut of communications channels. In the…
Silicon Connector for Box 2.0 July 1, 2016 Silicon Connector for Box 2.0 is finally available! When Silicon Connector for Box first came…
Silicon Connector Overview June 22, 2016 It started with a naive InDesign user Silicon Connector first saw the light of day…
5 Online Editors at Drupa 2016 June 4, 2016 I was thankful to attend Drupa 2016 and spent most of my time in Halls…
Silicon Designer and the Power of Web Standards May 28, 2016 For seven years, our Silicon Designer product has expanded in use, across many countries, languages,…
How to Try Adobe InDesign Server May 21, 2016 As leading resellers of the product, we are asked time and time again to help people…
Interview with Silicon Publishing Co-Founder May 5, 2016 Silicon Publishing co-founder and CEO talks of Silicon Publishing’s origins, where they are today, and…
Connecting InDesign to URL-based Assets April 18, 2016 Silicon Connector is enjoying huge popularity, and as we build out more and more implementations (12…
Flowing Data through Templates – the Art of Silicon Paginator April 3, 2016 Since the year 2000, we at Silicon Publishing have carried on a tradition we first…
The Fall and Rise of SVG December 2, 2015 SVG certainly crashed and burned before it rose like a phoenix from the ashes… Sometime…
Adobe Stock: the History June 16, 2015 With the CC2015 launch, Adobe finally announced the inevitable, which many of us expected from the…
Adobe InDesign: After a Decade of Dominance, What Next? June 7, 2015 Silicon Publishing was out in force at PePcon 2015 in Philadelphia, and as usual it…
3D Web Fest May 16, 2015 The 3D Web Fest happened on May 13th in San Francisco, and Silicon Publishing was…
Standards are the Present May 11, 2015 I was writing a press release recently, and I was just about to write a…
WebVR Disrupts: Have walled gardens met their match? January 22, 2015 This Medium Post by Max Dunn is a review of a WebVR Meetup at Google…
How and Why Software Evolves: Next Steps for Silicon Connector October 25, 2014 We have been working hard on our Silicon Connector product, and as it grows exponentially…
What is InDesign Server? July 24, 2014 A simple explanation of Adobe InDesign Server: what it is and how it is used.…
Change as a Way of Life: CC Extensions and the Third-Party InDesign Developer July 14, 2014 Software development is a crazy business. Every time you feel you’ve mastered a programming language…
Using InDesign as a CAD Tool July 10, 2014 How Adobe InDesign can be extended to serve as a CAD tool for making music…
A Brief History of InDesign Server May 21, 2014 It started with beer. It was the year 2000, and I’d just taken a job…
Four DAMs from the InDesign Out May 11, 2014 Silicon Publishing has built InDesign Server Solutions the past 15 years for the largest organizations in…
InDesign Scripting: Baby Steps January 17, 2014 by Olav Martin Kvern Learn to install a script once—and you’ll never have to do…
Silicon Designer: Online Editing Without Limits January 5, 2014 In this post I am going to explain how Silicon Designer is built to support…
The famo.us controversy December 9, 2013 famo.us is a 2.5-year-old Silicon Valley startup that claims to have solved the performance challenges…
It’s famo.us now: HTML5 doesn’t work December 6, 2013 Link to a Medium post by Silicon Publishing co-founder Max Dunn describing a 2013 presentation…
Using Adobe InDesign with Box: The Trend to Cloud-based Design Workflows November 28, 2013 At the time Adobe InDesign was created, 15 years ago, it was generally impractical to…
The Greatest Software Product of All Time: A Developer’s Appreciation of Adobe InDesign November 27, 2013 Anything you can dream, you can do.
Good News and Bad News for HTML5 October 16, 2012 I am at the HTML5 Developers’ Conference in San Francisco. One of my friends said…
Five Considerations in User Interface for Online Design September 30, 2012 We at Silicon Publishing have come to specialize in developing online design applications, with years…
Silicon Publishing Invents the desperationCounter May 9, 2012 Anybody who works with automating Adobe Illustrator long enough will find some level of flakiness…
Moore’s Law and Adobe InDesign Server February 19, 2012 We have been automating Adobe InDesign for 12 years, InDesign Server for 7 (since it…
A Great Technologist Passes October 6, 2011 I only saw Steve Jobs twice, but he had a huge influence on my life…
Connecting InDesign to Web-based Assets December 4, 2010 For ten years I have been automating Adobe InDesign, and for 10 years I have…
How the Web has advanced since its original design December 4, 2009 I just set up a basic Web site (WordPress blog) for a friend, Paris Tompkins.…
The Two Perspectives on XML November 22, 2009 I have been working with XML since it was a glimmer in the eye of…