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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using InCopy to Clean Up Word Files

Tom, a journalism professor and InDesign/InCopy user, e-mailed me about his interesting use of InCopy as kind of a "Word cleaner plug-in:" Because I like and understand InDesign and have had quirky problems using Word files, I've come up with a new workflow that puts InCopy in the middle. Quickly: I ...

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 ...

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 ...

InCopy for Editors Webinar: Two New Dates, Same Discount Code

As I mentioned in a previous post, Copyediting magazine asked me to present a webinar for their subscribers and the general public called InCopy for Editors. Unfortunately, it took us too long to resolve some initial technical difficulties (oh you gotta love them computers—but we figured it out) during the ...

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 ...

Discount Code for “Editing in InCopy” Webinar

Copyediting magazine has asked me to present a 60-minute live webinar (plus an optional 30 minutes for Q&A) to its subscribers and interested attendees on Adobe InCopy. The session is this coming Tuesday [will be rescheduled due to technical difficulties! Oh those pesky computers. I'll announce the new date(s) here ...