Tips and techniques for Adobe InCopy/InDesign workflow users

Add Any Diacritic Easily

Last month I was in New Mexico, teaching the InCopy/InDesign workflow to about 30 newspaper editors and designers, all on PCs. They were thrilled with the Glyphs panel (Text > Glyphs) because it’s such a pain in Windows to enter special characters, especially funky letter/diacritic combinations.
However, some of the letter/diacritic pairs they needed to occasionally […]

Working With Layout Templates

Is there some sort of efficiency virus going around? Over the past few weeks I’ve received a slew of phone calls and e-mails from IC/ID users of every stripe asking for help with the same thing: setting up template-based InCopy/InDesign workflows.
Here’s an example, from an art director who e-mailed me last month:
“I want to […]