Ground-Breaking Yearbook/Photobook Web Editor Unveiled at Print 18
Silicon Publishing announces advances in their Silicon Designer online editing platform at the Print 18 conference in Chicago. The premiere online editing system based on Adobe InDesign Server now has robust features for longer documents such as Photobooks and Yearbooks.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Silicon Publishing is announcing the latest variation of their Silicon Designer online editing platform at the Print 18 conference in Chicago. This version focuses on editing long document such as photobooks, yearbooks, and other complex publications in a mobile-friendly HTML5 environment supported by modern web browsers.
Silicon Publishing's COO Aaron Hodges described recent efforts: "We were early adopters of HTML5 as a document editing platform, beginning with short document types such as greeting cards and marketing collateral. Today our technology is applied to more complex use cases such as yearbooks, photobooks, and complex documents. Pagination and text flow are important long document features. We are also building out more administrative features in the online platform, allowing better user control versioning of design content, particularly when the design session spans weeks or even months, rather than just minutes or hours."
Industry-Leading Online Editor
Since 2009, Silicon Designer has been the platform of choice for web-to-print and product configuration sites around the world, from B2B document editing solutions to the largest-scale consumer sites. The Designer suite includes:
- Adobe InDesign CC Extension for configuring document templates.
- Administrative system for managing templates and queueing production jobs.
- Runtime system in which users create and edit template-based documents.
- Back end composition engine for web previews and high-quality print output with Adobe InDesign Server.
Customization is Key
Silicon Designer enjoys increasingly broad adoption as the leading tool for online editing, but with great customizability: each deployment can offer a totally unique appearance. Using the latest HTML5 technology, Silicon Publishing has completely de-coupled the look and feel of the application from the core editing/rendition functionality. For example: one client might choose a slider to change font sizes, while another prefers a dropdown. With Designer, both are easily accommodated, and this flexibility applies across all components of the interface.
In addition, Silicon Designer is built for extensibility from the ground up: the customization layer, as well as the web services APIs, are available to clients who need to customize the product's look and feel for specific needs. Clients without heavy technical resources are still free to deploy a designer with only a modest design/integration effort provided by Silicon Publishing, or third-party resources.
Standards are the Present
Silicon Designer is built to today's web standards. Given the standards-compliance of modern desktop and mobile browsers, Designer's editing experience is consistent across all environments, while interface points based on RESTful web services and/or Web Sockets enable easy integration with any shopping cart or workflow system.
SOURCE Silicon Publishing
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