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 [...]
The Strange Case of the “Editing and Out of Date” Status
I get a lot of screen shots of InCopy UIOs (Unidentified Interface Objects) sent my way. “What does this thing mean?” is the usual message in the e-mail. Here’s one that I get at least once a month — you may have encountered it yourself — and at first glance, it seems impossible: Now, how [...]
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 [...]
Galley and Story View are Not Available
Lately, the InCopy forums at Adobe.com have been peppered with posts from different users quoting the same Alert dialog box, and asking why they’re seeing it. The Alert box they’re referring to is this one:
Working With Layout Templates
Is there some sort of efficiency virus going around? Over the past few weeks I’ve received a slew of phone calls and e-mails from IC/ID users of every stripe asking for help with the same thing: setting up template-based InCopy/InDesign workflows. Here’s an example, from an art director who e-mailed me last month: “I want [...]
My InCopy CS3 Workflow White Paper
Last fall, one of my favorite clients — Adobe Systems themselves, woo-hoo! — hired me to write up their official InCopy CS3 Workflow white paper. You’re probably familiar with an earlier version (like CS or CS2) of this white paper. It’s the PDF document prospective users download from the main InCopy product page on the [...]
CS3 Updates Available from Adobe
CS3 users, are you up to date with the latest version of InCopy and InDesign? Look at your About screen (choose About InCopy or About InDesign from the program menus) to see the version. If it says “5.0″ with no extra numbers then you’re out of date. Adobe released an update, 5.0.1 (CS3 = version [...]
Versioning Stories, Part 2: Editors’ Turn
In the last issue of InCopyFlow I wrote about a couple ways that designers could create back-ups and/or versions of an InDesign layout and its stories while it was in the middle of an InDesign/InCopy production cycle. Here’s the story, if you want to refresh your memory: Versioning Stories and Layouts. You may remember that [...]
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 [...]