InCopy Templates: Page Size and Content Area
A hard-working staffer asked for help with InCopy templates: We are a simple mass market paperback company and would like to create InCopy templates that mimics our final book. I do not seem to be able to create an InCopy document that has a proper Text area. E.g. Document Setup: Text Area should be 23p [...]
Using InCopy to Clean Up Word Files
Tom, a journalism professor and InDesign/InCopy user, e-mailed me about his interesting use of InCopy as kind of a “Word cleaner plug-in:” Because I like and understand InDesign and have had quirky problems using Word files, I’ve come up with a new workflow that puts InCopy in the middle. Quickly: I edit in Word then [...]
Jump Stories Between InDesign Files
Sumil wrote: How can two newspaper pages (in two InDesign files) share a common InCopy file. So that one half of the story flows in the first page and rest in the second page. These are called jump stories in my part of the world. Is such a thing possible without using any additional plug-ins? Sumil’s [...]