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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Templating meets asset management: Silicon Designer for AEM
We just presented a webinar about our Silicon Designer for AEM software, and the recording is below. Digital asset management in a nutshell Digital Asset Management (DAM) has become an essential component of creative workflows. DAM software, such as AEM Assets (the...
Designing for Online Editing
We just had a webinar about how designers prepare templates for online editing, and the recording is below. It was great to get the designers' perspective, so we invited two of the best designers on the planet to share their point of view: Greg Wasmuth of CoCreators...
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...
Editing InDesign Documents Online
Adobe InDesign is the tool of choice for creating high-quality print-ready documents. These days, nearly every magazine or high-end printed piece was created with InDesign. InDesign output is increasingly found on the web, in cases like Infographics, where extreme...
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...
The Insider’s Guide to InDesign Server
Here is the entire video of our Webinar, "The Insider's Guide to InDesign Server." There is a corresponding blog post on Medium, which explains the same content in blog format. Here are links to the individual sections (click on the time, then click on the youtube...
Adobe MAX 2019 and the new Silicon Designer
The new Silicon Designer is scheduled for release in January of 2020. We are very happy with the state of the product and its direction. Silicon Publishing people are fresh from the Adobe MAX conference, where David Blatner showed Designer in one of his InDesign...
Asset Management meets Online Design: Silicon Designer for AEM Assets
At the Adobe Summit last week, Adobe presented our Silicon Designer for AEM as one of the features of their Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform, highlighting the strides they've made in extensibility and Creative Cloud integration. In their presentation entitled,...
The Core Composition Engines of Web-to-Print
I recently participated in a presentation at Dscoop Phoenix with three companies that I've known for over a decade: Pageflex, XMPie, and Marcom Central. We had joined a "Composition Engine Panel Discussion" with web-to-print luminaries Jen Matt (of...