InCopy CS5 Workflow White Paper Now Available
Have you been to the InCopy product page on Adobe.com lately? If so you’ll note that they just posted a 20-page white paper explaining how the basic InCopy and InDesign workflow happens, updated for CS5: (Click the cover image to download the 3.3 MB PDF, or go to the InCopy product page and download it [...]
Join me during one of my InCopy/InDesign seminars!
September 2009 is Learn InCopy month at InCopySecrets.com! Whether you’re a newbie wondering if InCopy could possibly work at your company; or you’re a veteran InCopy workflow team member in need of higher-level training, tips, tricks and troubleshooting help, I’ve got something for you. Full-day InCopy seminars First, I’m really excited to be able to [...]
InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide
Great news! Adobe has given me permission to post the InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide, a 38-page PDF that I wrote for them last year, on the InCopySecrets.com blog. This is essentially the same guide they gave to software reviewers right before CS4 came out, to help get them up to speed with the new features, [...]
InCopy for Editors Webinar: Two New Dates, Same Discount Code
As I mentioned in a previous post, Copyediting magazine asked me to present a webinar for their subscribers and the general public called InCopy for Editors. Unfortunately, it took us too long to resolve some initial technical difficulties (oh you gotta love them computers—but we figured it out) during the originally-scheduled presentation, so we had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]