Comments on: DIY Solution: Pasteboard Notes

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:46:22 +0000

Maura, unfortunately no, they can’t. For this reason you might consider putting the pasteboard notes on top of the document, but in a dedicated *layer*. Editors can show/hide layers in InCopy. So if they want to print them in layout view, they just make sure the layer is showing.

By: Maura Moran

Maura Moran — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:34:56 +0000

Can the editors print the pasteboard notes or include them in the PDF of a page?

By: Raphael Freeman

Raphael Freeman — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:40:14 +0000

Is there any way of actually making the text in the notes larger? It’s tiny and I see no way of changing the font or the font size.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:50:23 +0000

No, InCopy can’t make a new text frame … can’t the editor insert the caption in a note in a nearby story? And then mention it’s there in the e-mail they send you back with the attached InDesign package?

Then after you updated the layout with the package, you could insert the text frame and copy/paste the contents of the note into it.

Otherwise, yes, you do need to send another package. But it might not be so onerous as you think.

If the editor has already made changes to the one you sent, just make a new assignment consisting only of the caption frame, and package and email that. The editor can’t combine them or anything on their end, but once he fills in the caption and returns both packages back to you, you can combine them on your end (if you need to do another proofing round). Just drag the caption story into the original assignment and delete the Caption assignment

If the editor hasn’t made any edits to the first one yet .. he opened it up, discovered it was missing a caption frame, and called you … you could cancel the package in InDesign (select the packaged assignment in the Assignments panel and choose Cancel Package from the Assignments panel menu), add the caption frame, and package the assignment anew.

By: Fredrik Eive Refsli

Fredrik Eive Refsli — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:09:35 +0000

Is there a way for the editor to add ‘yellow notes’ or extra text frames for when the designer made too few? The current example is for a doc with images, in which I unfortunately forgot to add a caption text frame. Can the editor make a new text frame or do I have to make it and send the InCopy package all over again?