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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...
How to Try Adobe InDesign Server
As leading resellers of the product, we are asked time and time again to help people to try Adobe InDesign Server, and how to install the trial or licensed versions of the product. We have distilled simple instructions here for trying the latest version, and...
Interview with Silicon Publishing Co-Founder
Silicon Publishing co-founder and CEO talks of Silicon Publishing's origins, where they are today, and where they are headed in the future in this interview with Superb Crew.
Connecting InDesign to URL-based Assets
Silicon Connector is enjoying huge popularity, and as we build out more and more implementations (12 Connectors and counting!) the product is becoming more clearly defined, while the product roadmap is also taking shape. While the main feature of "connecting InDesign...
Flowing Data through Templates – the Art of Silicon Paginator
Since the year 2000, we at Silicon Publishing have carried on a tradition we first encountered from our former life at Bertelsmann Industry Services (a now defunct company with its own 20-year history): database publishing. We automate the flow of data through...
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...
Adobe InDesign: After a Decade of Dominance, What Next?
Silicon Publishing was out in force at PePcon 2015 in Philadelphia, and as usual it was a true joy to meet pretty much all of the brilliant and talented InDesign developers from around the world: Gabe Harbs (In-Tools) came from Israel, Kris Coppieters (Rorohiko)...
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
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?
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,...
How and Why Software Evolves: Next Steps for Silicon Connector
We have been working hard on our Silicon Connector product, and as it grows exponentially in popularity, its value versus any alternative connecting Adobe InDesign to DAMs and cloud-based storage systems is being confirmed again and again based on the feedback of...