Galley and Story View are Not Available
Lately, the InCopy forums at Adobe.com have been peppered with posts from different users quoting the same Alert dialog box, and asking why they’re seeing it.
The Alert box they’re referring to is this one:
My InCopy CS3 Workflow White Paper
Last fall, one of my favorite clients — Adobe Systems themselves, woo-hoo! — hired me to write up their official InCopy CS3 Workflow white paper. You’re probably familiar with an earlier version (like CS or CS2) of this white paper. It’s the PDF document prospective users download from the main InCopy product page on the […]
Fastest Way(s) to Apply Styles
I was watching an editor format a story in InCopy the other day. While I was happy to see he was using the Paragraph Styles his designers included in the layout (as opposed to manually formatting text with commands in the Character and Paragraph panels), it was painful to see how much mousing and clicking […]
Palettes to Toolbars and Vice Versa
Microsoft Office is a toolbar-centric set of programs. Adobe Creative Suite has a palette-cenric philosophy.
And InCopy is a mash-up of the two. It’s an Adobe Creative Suite program designed to appeal to editors most familiar with Microsoft Word. That’s why it has horizontal toolbars at the top and the bottom along with the usual […]
My Lynda.com IC/ID Video Training is Live
My first Lynda.com video training title went live a couple weeks ago. Right now the lessons are only available online, but a DVD will be available for sale shortly:
InCopy CS3 + InDesign CS3 Integration
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=323
If you’re not a lynda.com member, you can only view the first few introductory Quicktime movies for free. Once you subscribe […]
Personalize InCopy’s Defaults
Do you constantly change the same settings over and over again when you’re working in InCopy? Perhaps you always turn on Show Hidden Characters? Or you always switch from the default Story view to Layout after opening a new file?
Take a few minutes today and set the program up to run the way you want […]
InCopy CS3 New Features
Adobe officially unveiled the newest version of its Creative Suite line-up this week. Thirteen applications upgraded to CS3 status, they’re sold stand-alone or in various combinations to comprise one of six Suites, due to ship in late April 2007:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/
If you click “Compare Editions” to see the product matrix, you’ll see lots of familiar faces. CS3 […]