New Plug-in Saves Versions of Workflow Stories
One of the most frequent questions I hear from new InDesign/InCopy workflow users (or publishers considering moving to it) is, “How can we save a version of a story we’ve checked out?” Mainly it’s editors who ask the question, but designers too would appreciate the ability to occasionally save a version of the contents of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]