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InDesign and Express: the Present and Future of Documents / Images
Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign is, arguably, the greatest software product of all time. It is the dominant software application on this earth for creating print content. If you look at a rack of magazines (assuming you can still find such a thing) you can bet that...
Adobe Express Chooses Print Partner for Launch
Today, Adobe announced that you can design and order print products directly from Express. You can now order business cards, flyers, posters, even t-shirts, without leaving Express. They launched with longtime partner Zazzle. I've been telling Adobe to offer online...
Print Reddy: How to Print from Adobe Express
Adobe Express Takes Over In June of 2023 I first saw the "New" Adobe Express and was extremely impressed. It was Adobe's long-awaited answer to Canva, and it had some draw-dropping features. The AI, especially, was quite wonderful. But the key thing I wanted to see...
Introduction to Print Reddy for Adobe Express
We are excited to announce our new, free add-on for Adobe Express, Print Reddy. Here is a brief introduction to the basic 1.0 version, as well as some ideas about where we are headed. Almost Perfect for Print Trying out the new Express last year, we were very...
SDXML: a Universal Document Model
It has been nearly twenty years since Alissa Whitney and I created the first version of SDXML, and since then, it has grown into far more than we ever imagined. Initially created as a utilitarian way to make InDesign documents editable on the web, at this point it is...
Silicon Designer for Adobe Experience Manager
Silicon Publishing has been building online design solutions since our inception in the year 2000: in our previous life at Bertelsmann, we had pioneered the web itself (building Intel's first web site, for example), including the very first server-based generation of...
Document Automation for Real Estate
The real estate Industry, both commercial and residential, has a strong dependency on documents. These range from marketing materials such as flyers, postcards, and listings, to complex legal documents such as loan applications, contracts, and deeds of title. In our...
Visualizing Promotional Products
Graphics technology has evolved rapidly following the advent of the computer, and during the past decade high-quality 3D graphics have finally become available to everyone. It's hard to imagine that just 9 years ago, we were lobbying to convince Apple to support...
Extending Adobe Express
I am here in Los Angeles at the 2023 Adobe MAX conference, excited to show our recent work. We have spent the past three and a half months using Express extensibility features to develop two integrations, using the two SDKs available in the new Express product: One of...
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...