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IntelligenceBank DAM and PrintUI Together Make Local Area Marketing Processes Seamless

For the past 3 years, IntelligenceBank DAM, the leading provider of digital asset management to manage marketing processes integrated with PrintUIs Web-to-Print module. The purpose of this turn-key integration has been to make it easy for marketers to control how InDesign templates are edited, within their master, DAM environment. According to Tessa Court, CEO of

Mark Hilton January 31, 2017 No Comments

Installers: The good, the bad and the ugly

It seems that developing software installers can sometimes be more difficult than developing the application. Take, for example, installation of the PrintUI extensions into InDesign. First, a bit of history. (If you are in a hurry, skip down to the recommendations at the end of this blog post.) Adobe developed a piece of software called

Harbs September 24, 2015 No Comments

New Features to Make PrintUI More Flexible

We’ve added some other features to make for very flexible workflows. Liquid Layout Today we have added support for InDesign’s Liquid Layout feature that allows for automatic repositioning of elements when a document changes sizes. When using the PrintUI APIs to request output of any type (PDF, JPEG, or PNG), the output size can be

Harbs July 12, 2015 No Comments

PrintUI and Morisawa, Inc. Announce Cloud-Based Availability of Morisawa Professional Fonts Library

Now Available via PrintUIs Web-to Print SaaS based service; First time premiere Japanese fonts have been made available outside of Japan. September 30, 2014, Santa Cruz, Calif. PrintUI a leading web-to print SaaS-based service and Morisawa, Inc. the premiere digital Japanese typography company today announced the availability of the Morisawa professional fonts library. The exclusive

Mark Hilton September 30, 2014 No Comments

Updated Handling of Fonts

Quite some time ago, we discovered an issue with InDesign Server related to the handling of fonts. The issue proved to be a real sticky one for us because it made separating client fonts very tricky. We worked out a way around the issue, but it was sub-optimal. We filed a bug at Adobe and

Harbs September 23, 2014 No Comments

New Support for Variable Data Printing

We have recently added some new Variable Data Printing (VDP) APIs to our InDesign Server to allow our clients to programmatically change text and images in a template. Some examples of ways that these new APIs could be used include: Automatically generate a PDF or JPEG from data with no human intervention. For example, a

Peter Mierau January 18, 2014 No Comments

Announcing the PrintUI Storefront using Magento and the PrintUI Magento Theme

PrintUI is now offering Magento Community Edition (CE) hosting options, as well as, a PrintUI theme for the Magento CE. Of course, the new PrintUI Magento theme comes fully integrated with our PrintUI Pro subscriptions (Starter, Premium, and Unlimited). If you’re looking for a general purpose eCommerce solution to integrate with PrintUI Pro we offer

Mark Hilton September 17, 2013 No Comments

New Search Feature for Image Galleries

PrintUI image galleries now support the ability to search for images. This capability can be added to any gallery, but the implementation will vary. For example, for galleries that connect to a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, the gallery connector code will usually just call the DAM’s search API to do the search. Similarly, for

Peter Mierau July 10, 2013 No Comments

Flex != Flash

Flex recently became a top level project at Apache and released version 4.9.0. I’m personally very excited about the project and I’ve seen a lot of confusion and misinformation on the web. Here’s some of facts as well as some of my thoughts on the subject. I hope it will help clarify what Flex is

Harbs January 27, 2013 21 Comments

New Year, New Server Architecture

The last year has been an awesome start for PrintUI! We’re seeing very good adoption of the service and we’re seeing demand for new applications that put a higher load on our servers. We’re always excited to see the desire to use PrintUI for ever more complex applications. Performance is Key We want to make

Harbs January 1, 2013 No Comments

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