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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How Creative Automation is Changing Design and Content – For the Better
Creative automation isn't just for self-service in consumer goods, or mechanical pickers in warehouses, or even sophisticated decision-making robots hard at work on product assembly lines. Robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are now accelerating...
Updating to the Latest Adobe Creative Cloud while Maintaining Earlier Versions
How do I keep previous versions of an Adobe CC application as I install the new one? What is the trick? On install, uncheck "Remove old versions". That's it! And you'll keep your older versions of InDesign (or Photoshop, or whatever). You can also enable auto-update...