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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...
The Fall and Rise of SVG

The Fall and Rise of SVG

SVG certainly crashed and burned before it rose like a phoenix from the ashes... Sometime in 1998, a former co-worker who had gone to work at Adobe came by my office at Bertlesmann to inform me of a brand new technology that she knew would excite me: PGML, or...

Adobe Stock: the History

With the CC2015 launch, Adobe finally announced the inevitable, which many of us expected from the moment they acquired Fotolia, and some of us imagined much earlier: Adobe Stock. This has been a very long time in coming, and it completes an initiative from many years...

3D Web Fest

3D Web Fest

The 3D Web Fest happened on May 13th in San Francisco, and Silicon Publishing was in attendance. Click on the links below (directly from the event program) to see some stunning WebGL (generally view in Chrome for best results): TONE PONG / R.Yagiz Mungan...

Standards are the Present

Standards are the Present

I was writing a press release recently, and I was just about to write a heading that has been something of a mantra the past 20 years: "Standards are the Future". But I paused, realizing the product I was describing is completely standards-based, thanks to recent...

WebVR Disrupts: Have walled gardens met their match?

WebVR Disrupts: Have walled gardens met their match?

This Medium Post by Max Dunn is a review of a WebVR Meetup at Google San Francisco in January 2015. Contemplation of Web-based vs. app-centric Virtual Reality. Will Virtual Reality (VR) be a proprietary, app-centric, thing, with X walled gardens, or an open,...

What is InDesign Server?

What is InDesign Server?

A simple explanation of Adobe InDesign Server: what it is and how it is used. More info at https://www.siliconpublishing.com or call Silicon Publishing at US (925) 935-3899 - Europe +34 627 524 218 - cesarmartin@siliconpublishing.com - Partners with Adobe for InDesign...