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...
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When and Why Adobe InDesign Server Rules
We at Silicon Publishing have been working in the database publishing and online editing space for over twenty years, since the very birth of desktop Adobe InDesign, and long before the initial release of InDesign Server in 2005. Currently, we build the largest...
InDesign Server Case Study: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
In the cold winter of 2008, we were approached by a technical lead at Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines ("RCCL"), regarding the topic of cruise booklet production. Sajan Chacko had seen our Silicon Paginator product (based on Adobe InDesign Server), and he inquired by...
A Brief History of InDesign Server
It started with beer. It was the year 2000, and I’d just taken a job with the Developer Technologies group at Adobe. I’d been working on InDesign scripting as a contractor, but now I was a full time employee. This meant, among other things, that I had to respond to...