When you work with InDesign Server, you will soon learn that It’s just InDesign desktop, made available in a server-based context. Out of the box, it doesn’t have a modern RESTful API, nor does it manage the load balancing and job queuing of multiple instances.
Beyond the automation work needed to program document output, the administration and management of IDS is itself a significant development effort.
Solution
Enter Nucleus
From the hundreds of IDS solutions delivered over the past 20 years, a powerful management tool gradually evolved—one that solves these challenges.
What it provides:
A RESTful service layer, enabling you to call rendition jobs.
Load balancing and job queuing, across one or more servers.
An administrative tool for storing templates, assets, and scripts.
Alternate rendition modules, for both 2D and 3D graphics that can augment IDS workflows.
For those seeking to deploy an InDesign Server solution using their own scripts, Nucleus can quickly add powerful capabilities to your servers/cloud, or in our hosted environment. For more comprehensive solutions, our Silicon Designer and Silicon Paginator products are built on top of this same service, while offering comprehensive APIs for online editing and database publishing.
For more info, contact sales@siliconpublishing.com.
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Silicon Publishing has been delivering solutions using Adobe InDesign Server, since the product’s inception in 2005. We build solutions that let organizations generate dynamic documents at scale, or edit Adobe…
