Silicon Publishing Offers Solutions Based on Adobe InDesign Server CS2

Business Wire, June 13, 2006

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Silicon Publishing is designing custom publishing solutions based on Adobe InDesign Server CS2, thanks to a recent licensing agreement between Silicon Publishing, Inc. and Adobe Systems Incorporated. E[acute accent]Adobe InDesign Server CS2 is a new publishing tool that is built on the same codebase as the innovative desktop page-layout application, Adobe InDesign CS2. The server-side application is designed -- among other things -- to handle large-scale publishing loads, work as a back-end composition engine in web applications, free up workstation resources, generate batches of dynamic documents by the thousands, and preserve the highest standards of quality. E[acute accent]Adobe InDesign Server CS2 is not available as an out-of-the-box solution from Adobe. Instead Adobe is licensing the technology through strategic partners, like the team of experts at Silicon Publishing, who build turnkey and custom solutions to meet the specific needs of publishing customers. E[acute accent]"We've been watching Silicon Publishing deliver the most advanced services in digital publishing for years," said Kathy Pescetti, Marketing Director of Admail West, a leader in the direct mail industry. "InDesign Server fits their talents, products, and services so perfectly that their partnership with Adobe was a natural win-win opportunity." E[acute accent]Silicon Publishing has been automating page-composition applications based on InDesign since version 1.0, and provides expertise in the entire spectrum of printed and online publishing tasks that include XML, web development, and dynamic page composition. One of the company's first custom solutions was a tool for formatting XML with InDesign. Another is an application that uses InDesign for server-based composition of variable data documents. E[acute accent]"The moment we saw desktop InDesign, we knew we wanted a server version," said Max Dunn, President of Silicon Publishing. "We thought its advanced type and graphics control combined with server-based power would be transformative for publishing." E[acute accent]"This first server version of InDesign finally gives us the scalability and reliability we'd envisioned," he continued. "Its multi-instance capability lets us effectively deploy to multi-processor servers, exponentially increasing speed and throughput without sacrificing quality. And in early testing, we ran it for 30 days without having to reboot. Now we have the power to give our customers better solutions than ever before."

E[acute accent]Silicon Publishing's former and current clients include Admail West; Advance Business Graphics; IPC Communications; Adobe Systems Incorporated; O'Neil Data Systems; Symantec; and the American Planning Association. Silicon Publishing also resells page-composition software from Printable and Datazone.