Tips and techniques for Adobe InCopy/InDesign workflow users

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 […]

Huge Yellow Tool Tips Bugging You?

When you’re in InCopy’s Layout view, or anywhere in InDesign’s main view, the programs insist on displaying huge yellow boxes with tiny text whenever you hover your cursor over a managed workflow story or image. The text says, “You are currently editing “feature story-Once there.incx”” or “X Story is available for anyone to edit” or […]

Dueling Styles: InCopy vs. InDesign

Recently I’ve received a number of e-mails from InCopy users with questions about creating paragraph and character styles (such as, “Why can’t I” and “How do I”). It was a surprise to me, since I thought editors didn’t want to have to bother with formatting text, only writing it and correcting it. At least that’s […]