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Publishing Silicon is the blog of Silicon Publishing, a company focused on database publishing, online editing, and Adobe InDesign automation.

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...
Visualizing Promotional Products

Visualizing Promotional Products

Graphics technology has evolved rapidly following the advent of the computer, and during the past decade high-quality 3D graphics have finally become available to everyone. It's hard to imagine that just 9 years ago, we were lobbying to convince Apple to support...

Five ways to use AI with InDesign

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...

Web to Print

Web to Print

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,...