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Change as a Way of Life: CC Extensions and the Third-Party InDesign Developer
Software development is a crazy business. Every time you feel you’ve mastered a programming language or framework, it’s declared obsolete, and you’ve got to crawl your way back up a learning curve to master something new. These changes are never under your...
How Adobe InDesign can be extended to serve as a CAD tool for making music instruments.
A Brief History of InDesign Server
It started with beer. It was the year 2000, and I’d just taken a job with the Developer Technologies group at Adobe. I’d been working on InDesign scripting as a contractor, but now I was a full time employee. This meant, among other things, that I had to respond to...
Four DAMs from the InDesign Out
Silicon Publishing has built InDesign Server Solutions the past 15 years for the largest organizations in the world: from Web to Print applications for the likes of Amazon, Hallmark and Shutterfly to Database Publishing applications for companies including Disney,...
WebGL Comes of Age
InDesign Scripting: Baby Steps
by Olav Martin Kvern Learn to install a script once—and you’ll never have to do it again. I spent years at Adobe helping to develop, document, and popularize scripting in InDesign. I did this because I want to free creative people from the drudgery of most day to day...
Silicon Designer: Online Editing Without Limits
In this post I am going to explain how Silicon Designer is built to support the most demanding online editing solutions in the world. We are at a point in the evolution of this product that I am truly proud of, and I am deeply grateful to our incredibly talented...
Farewell to the Empress of Adobe
Instant Celtic Art
The famo.us controversy
famo.us is a 2.5-year-old Silicon Valley startup that claims to have solved the performance challenges of HTML5. HTML5 Performance "Performance challenges?" you might ask, but only if you hadn't yet heard the tales of Facebook and LinkedIn turning an about face from...
It’s famo.us now: HTML5 doesn’t work
Link to a Medium post by Silicon Publishing co-founder Max Dunn describing a 2013 presentation by famo.us, the San Francisco startup rendering dynamic 3D interactivity on mobile browsers at gaming performance levels, in spite of rumored HTML5 failings.
Using Adobe InDesign with Box: The Trend to Cloud-based Design Workflows
At the time Adobe InDesign was created, 15 years ago, it was generally impractical to store print-quality assets on web servers. A decade and a half later, however, the maturity of cloud-based file storage and asset management systems is making links from InDesign to...