Q&A from the InCopy Tips Webinar, Part 2
Picking up where I left off, here are some more great questions (and my answers) that the attendees of my InCopy Tips & Techniques webinar had during and after the main presentation. Q: Can you only create packages in InDesign? A: I know you’re referring to e-mail-based Assignments, aka InCopy packages (INCP in CS3, or [...]
Q&A from the InCopy Tips Webinar, Part 1
We had a great crowd at last month’s webinar, InCopy/InDesign Tips and Tricks! People logged in from all over the world and with all sorts of publishing backgrounds. Since no one dropped out during the 90 minute session, and everyone rated the session “good” or “great” in the poll at the end, I’d say it [...]
InCopy and InDesign 6.04 Update Now Available
This morning, Adobe released the “6.04″ updater, a significant bug fix for the Mac and Windows versions of InDesign CS4 and InCopy CS4. You can download the updater application directly from within either program — look for the “Check for Updates” command — or go to Adobe’s Download > Updates section of their web site [...]
Join me during one of my InCopy/InDesign seminars!
September 2009 is Learn InCopy month at InCopySecrets.com! Whether you’re a newbie wondering if InCopy could possibly work at your company; or you’re a veteran InCopy workflow team member in need of higher-level training, tips, tricks and troubleshooting help, I’ve got something for you. Full-day InCopy seminars First, I’m really excited to be able to [...]
Stealth Glitch: Accidental Accents in Filenames
When Mac users and Windows users need to share the same files, it’s important to use “lowest common denominator” types of filenames to avoid platform-specific problems with special characters. The Mac is perfectly fine with, say, a “greater than” symbol (OurLayout>v2.indd), while Windows most definitely is not. And when files are saved to and opened [...]
InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide
Great news! Adobe has given me permission to post the InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide, a 38-page PDF that I wrote for them last year, on the InCopySecrets.com blog. This is essentially the same guide they gave to software reviewers right before CS4 came out, to help get them up to speed with the new features, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fixing Links to Missing Stories
Theoretically, if you’re doing everything right, you should never see this icon appear on one of your workflow stories: If you see a scary red stop sign icon (it’s a hexagon, I checked) on a workflow story, instead of the usual globe or pencil, it means the story’s link is missing — neither InDesign nor [...]
Working with a Mixed CS3 and CS4 Workflow
On October 14, 2008, Adobe released its CS4 versions of all of its Creative Suite software, including InCopy. And as they always do when they release a new version of the suite, they removed all previous versions from their store shelves at the same time. So if you’re using an InDesign/InCopy CS3 workflow, and you [...]