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InDesign, Word and Box seamless cloud collaboration
We’ve been friends with the folks from Em Software for a long time. Just as our Connector solves a common problem of linking assets to InDesign from a DAM or file sharing service, WordsFlow creates a dynamic link with magic-merge capabilities from a Microsoft Word or...
Ten DAMs from the InDesign Out
Eleven years ago, Silicon Publishing stumbled into an opportunity to connect Adobe InDesign to remote assets in a very powerful and efficient way. Through the work of our developers, several of whom were part of the original team that built Adobe InDesign, we were...
Photoshop as a Service
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...
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,...
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...
Finding Truly Free Stock Images
I write blog posts and create an ever-expanding amount of marketing content for our company. I often have to find free stock images, and I am impressed with how good the public domain offerings are getting. Here are the sources that seem to rise to the top. Things to...
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...
Seven Trends in Multi-Channel Communications
Historically, Silicon Publishing has delivered publishing solutions across a gamut of communications channels. In the first place, our Silicon Paginator product (first released in 2005 as the "XML Formatting Engine"), is a platform for flowing data through InDesign...
Silicon Connector for Box 2.0
Silicon Connector for Box 2.0 is finally available! When Silicon Connector for Box first came out in 2013, it was designed to let InDesign users access assets in the Box cloud directly. Since then, the Connector product has become so popular that we've added...
Silicon Connector Overview
It started with a naive InDesign user Silicon Connector first saw the light of day in 2010, when we at Silicon Publishing were building a large-scale online editing solution for a major client. Our solution was based on Adobe InDesign and Adobe InDesign Server, which...
5 Online Editors at Drupa 2016
I was thankful to attend Drupa 2016 and spent most of my time in Halls 7 and 7a looking at the range of online editors from around the world. The following five online editing solutions stood out for me from among the 15 or so that I explored. 2Imagine: Real InDesign...
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...