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Silicon Publishing connects Adobe InDesign to the Box Content Cloud
San Francisco, CA, September 13, 2023 – Silicon Publishing announces the release of Silicon Connector for Box ver. 3.0, connecting Adobe creative tools directly to the Box Content Cloud. While Silicon Connector for Box has been very popular in the Box community for...
The long game of generative AI: Adobe sets the standard
Adobe has publicly released Artificial Intelligence features in their software for years, from the Sensei product announced in 2016 to the release of Firefly in 2023. Prior to these major initiatives, Adobe experimented with AI from the very early days, and pioneered...
How to use Silicon Connector for Box
We are on the cusp of releasing Silicon Connector for Box version 3.0, ten years after the very first version. As we take the product to new heights, we're getting more serious about documenting it and sharing it with the world. As part of that process, we just made a...
Empowering Adobe Extensibility: From Abandonment to Life
We at Silicon Publishing recently attended the Adobe Developer and Partner Days 2023. We saw the extensibility features now available across the spectrum of Adobe creative software products, from Photoshop to Premiere. The clear focus was on their current shiny silver...
Silicon Render Service for Adobe InDesign Server
Silicon Publishing has been delivering solutions using Adobe InDesign Server, since the product's inception in 2005. We build solutions that let organizations generate dynamic documents at scale, or edit Adobe InDesign documents online through an easy-to-use,...
Online Design and Editing
Online editing is a powerful technology that has been steadily evolving since the World Wide Web became popular in the 1990s. Prior to the advent of the web, the "personal computer" had itself been revolutionary, giving designers and authors incredible new power to...
Five ways to use AI with InDesign
Adobe InDesign is the most powerful page layout tool in existence. It is also extremely well-exposed to automation, and is available in server form. It is thus well-suited to leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the creation of documents and images. Olav Martin...
Database Publishing
Ever since database technology arrived in the 1960s, people have wanted to visualize that data. And as data has exploded over the past 6 decades, computer graphics technology has advanced in parallel. As of today, humans consume data in quantity and quality never...
Web to Print
In the late 1990s, the term “Web to Print” sprouted up. Like any new buzzword, it meant different things to different people. The most basic interpretation was that you could order print processes using a web interface. This meant needing to upload a print-ready file,...
What is DAM (Digital Asset Management) Software?
Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a critical part of the publishing process for organizations around the world. DAM software has been evolving since the early DAMs of the 1990s, and has in the past decade attained maturity.What is a DAM? Expert Theresa Regli has put...
A History of Adobe MAX
As I enjoy the 2022 Adobe MAX Conference, it strikes me how much it’s changed over the years. Here’s a brief history of what it has been, and what it has become, since it was first called “Adobe MAX," with some highlights of the more remarkable MAX moments. Macromedia...
The Importance of Design in Data Visualization
Design and data may seem like two unrelated fields, and in some cases they are. The truth of the matter though, is that design is also a powerful tool that can transform how we understand a number of different fields –– and these include data science. Now that Big...