There are two Paste commands in the Edit menu that you need to know about: However, your writing might include ideas or quotes from another text file, word-processing document, or Web page. If you've made it this far into a book about writing with a computer, we assume you know how to type. All this means that you can work together and learn from each other like never before. This smooth integration is possible because InCopy and InDesign share a lot of common technologies, including the same text-composition engine, the same font support, common file formats, and the same character and paragraph styles features. InCopy's truly fantastic word-processing tools help writers, editors, and proofreaders work more seamlessly with their designer counterparts than they ever thought possible. Read this chapter to save yourself from similar pain and suffering! Editing Text We can only imagine how much time had been wasted and how many formatting inconsistencies must have appeared in their publications. They were obviously getting their work done, but they weren't working efficiently. That's right, this large publisher was using InDesign to create magazines without using a single text style. Adam asked the customer to open one of their latest publications in InDesign and tell him what was in the Paragraph Styles and Character Styles palettes. The goal of the conference call was to find ways to automate the publishing workflow, and as the conversation developed it became obvious that mapping text styles would save a lot of time and manual labor. Adam was working recently with a large magazine publisher (the guilty party will remained unnamed) who had some questions about adding InCopy to their InDesign workflow. That's the whole reason you're using InCopy, right?īefore we start, we want to share a true story that exposes the problems that can arise if you don't take advantage of powerful software features that are right under your nose. Now that you have a better understanding of what InCopy is, let's learn more about how we can use the product to get work done more efficiently.Now that you're familiar with the InCopy interface and understand how to create, import, and open InCopy documents, it's time to start editing text. InCopy does not allow the editing of the design of a layout, only the content. InCopy provides a set of robust tools that allows editorial and writing staff to focus on their tasks such as copyfit status and many, many others. When properly configured, InCopy users can see and work in a designed layout that looks just like the finished product. That formatting is retained throughout the workflow. So the key elements here are content can be created and formatted using Adobe InCopy. This is something not possible with a straight up Microsoft Word workflow. Furthermore, that retention is maintained in a back and forth workflow because Adobe InCopy shares the exact same text engine as Adobe InDesign. The difference is that formatting applied in InCopy will be retained when it is placed inside of Adobe InDesign. This is the point at which most people ask "Well, why don't I just use Microsoft Word for that?" Good question. So let's begin here by answering the question what is Adobe InCopy? InCopy, in its simplest form, is a tool that allows users to edit and format content.
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