Olav Martin Kvern
Seattle, Washington
Olav Martin Kvern has played a major role in the creation of software ranging from Aldus PageMaker and Visio to Adobe InDesign and Silicon Designer. He has authored numerous books on page-layout software, including Real World InDesign. At Adobe, he evangelized InDesign automation and developed the example scripts included with the application. For the past 15 years at Silicon Publishing, Olav has continued developing document-automation technology, incorporating advances including TypeScript and AI.