Tips and techniques for Adobe InCopy/InDesign workflow users

Incompatible plug-ins

It’s a bitter truth, but not all InDesign plug-ins are compatible with InCopy. Here’s an example.
Chris, a production manager at a catalog company, sent me an e-mail. He said that his company’s art department uses InDesign CS3 to put together their catalogs, relying heavily on Meadows Publishing Solution’s AutoPrice plug-in and Virginia System’s Sonar IndexPro. […]

Add Any Diacritic Easily

Last month I was in New Mexico, teaching the InCopy/InDesign workflow to about 30 newspaper editors and designers, all on PCs. They were thrilled with the Glyphs panel (Text > Glyphs) because it’s such a pain in Windows to enter special characters, especially funky letter/diacritic combinations.
However, some of the letter/diacritic pairs they needed to occasionally […]

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