Online editing is a powerful technology that has been steadily evolving since the World Wide Web became popular in the 1990s. Prior to the advent of the web, the "personal computer" had itself been revolutionary, giving designers and authors incredible new power to...
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,...
Overview Web to Print, or WYSIWYG print collateral customisation has become one of the more common add-on facilities that an increasing number of DAM vendors are either offering their clients or being asked to by them. There are three core elements of these kind of...
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...
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...
Silicon Designer was announced as a product in the fall of 2009, via a press release called, "Web to Print missing Link Revealed in Chicago." This was distributed quite effectively around the world (No subsequent press release saw such results. what was the magic?)...
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...
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...
Adobe Desktop Technologies Ascend to the Cloud Adobe Photoshop is the premiere desktop tool for editing images. It offers the most powerful algorithms for image processing available anywhere, and is loved by creative people around the world. Not only is it ubiquitous...
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...