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,...
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The Meat of the Metaverse
I have been a technologist for quite some time, and over the years, I've witnessed the evolution of several technologies. They often follow a similar path, beginning in early obscurity, before suddenly catapulting at a seemingly arbitrary point into the domain of wild...
How to Share Adobe InDesign Files
Collaborative Authoring with Adobe InDesign We just presented a webinar on the topic of "Editing InDesign Documents Online," and it provides a summary of why you would edit InDesign documents online, along with demonstrations of how you can do so, through an online...
Introducing LotusJS
This week at the Adobe MAX conference, we at Silicon Publishing are proud to release our first Open Source framework. Called "LotusJS," it's the brainchild of our Software Architect, Dorian Smiley, the culmination of more than three years of focused effort. We're...
Silicon Designer and the Power of Web Standards
For seven years, our Silicon Designer product has expanded in use, across many countries, languages, and use cases. From B2B applications where franchises easily manage brand collateral, to some of the largest consumer-facing document personalization sites on the...
Standards are the Present
I was writing a press release recently, and I was just about to write a heading that has been something of a mantra the past 20 years: "Standards are the Future". But I paused, realizing the product I was describing is completely standards-based, thanks to recent...
WebVR Disrupts: Have walled gardens met their match?
This Medium Post by Max Dunn is a review of a WebVR Meetup at Google San Francisco in January 2015. Contemplation of Web-based vs. app-centric Virtual Reality. Will Virtual Reality (VR) be a proprietary, app-centric, thing, with X walled gardens, or an open,...
Change as a Way of Life: CC Extensions and the Third-Party InDesign Developer
Software development is a crazy business. Every time you feel you’ve mastered a programming language or framework, it’s declared obsolete, and you’ve got to crawl your way back up a learning curve to master something new. These changes are never under your...
WebGL Comes of Age
Silicon Designer: Online Editing Without Limits
In this post I am going to explain how Silicon Designer is built to support the most demanding online editing solutions in the world. We are at a point in the evolution of this product that I am truly proud of, and I am deeply grateful to our incredibly talented...