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Producing Branded Collateral for Real Estate
If you’re in the real estate business, you’re probably part of a large, nationwide association or affiliation that has offices in nearly every state, or your business may be headquartered in just one city, and perhaps you have a few locations — or even just one. In...
Online Editing Comes of Age
Alissa Whitney and I have been building online publishing solutions since the 1990s (and since the year 2000 as Silicon Publishing). But it wasn't until 2009 that we (along with Aaron Hodges, who had recently joined us and immediately lobbied for "a real software...
Updating to the Latest Adobe Creative Cloud while Maintaining Earlier Versions
How do I keep previous versions of an Adobe CC application as I install the new one? What is the trick? On install, uncheck "Remove old versions". That's it! And you'll keep your older versions of InDesign (or Photoshop, or whatever). You can also enable auto-update...
Towards InDesign Services: Connecting AEM as a Cloud Service to Adobe InDesign Server
We may be one of the first companies ever to connect the new “Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service” (AEMaaCS) to Adobe InDesign Server. Here is a basic example: This video demonstrates how you can combine AEMaaCS with our Silicon Designer technology (based on...
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...
Free InDesign Scripts
Silicon Publishing is giving away 13 scripts written by InDesign Guru Olav Martin Kvern. You can download them here. These range from utilities and examples of InDesign extensibility to graphic functions that generate art from parameters: some have been released in...
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...
Silicon Designer Case Study: Printing.com
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?)...
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...