A Hidden Game in InCopy CS3
When Adobe released CS3, many users (especially designers) were aghast at the change in the branding. Instead of butterflies (InDesign and InCopy), flowers (Illustrator), and feathers (Photoshop), now our program icons and splash screens were simple colored squares with initials, evoking a Periodic Table of the Elements theme.
But butterflies still exist in InCopy (and InDesign) […]
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 […]
Versioning Stories and Layouts
Designers, editors and writers have itchy trigger fingers, born out of bitter experience working with computers. We like to periodically do a “Save As” to files we’re working on so we can safely revert to previous versions in case something gets messed up.
But when a designer does that to a layout file with linked InCopy […]