#ADOBE INCOPY TUTORIAL INSTALL#

Good news is that if all they need is IC, they can do a single-app sub from Adobe for it.1.

#ADOBE INCOPY TUTORIAL INSTALL#

IC comes with a CC subscription, but you can't install it on an editor's computer from your account, they need their own sub. As long as people work off that folder on their hard drive (and don't move it or rename it to a diff. However if that's not possible, you can put an ID project in a Dropbox or Google Drive folder, and share the folder w/the team. It's true that you need to have the ID file on a shared server that all ID and IC users have read/write access to, since user all work on that ID file on the server, no copying to their local HDs. typically 75% of normal production turnaround time. It's unbelievable how much time is saved with this. they can only edit the contents of stories that the ID users give them permission to. It's better than giving editors their own copy of ID because IC doesn't let them move or create objects or pages. IC users can see the entire ID layout (if you can't, you're doing it wrong) with the actual typeface and formatting, and so can edit to fit. The main reason to use IC is to save time and money. Even a 2-page sales flyer might have 5 or more. (A typical ID file for say a 24 page magazine has 50+ stories. In InDesign the designers naturally put stories in different frames or threaded frames (called 'stories' in the workflow), so when an InCopy user needs to edit a story, other users can't edit it (prevents versionitis) but can edit other stories. Multiple IC users can edit their individual stories in an ID file at the same time if desired. It lets the designers design and the editors/writers edit the copy, instead of the editors marking up printouts or PDFs and the designers having to translate their scribbles into a new proof. I use it in our publishing company for our magazine, and know dozens of other companies that use it too.

If you have someone on your team working remotely, it gets a little more challenging unless you allow remote desktop access or something along those lines. If your office has a local server you can all connect to, that's great. Also, as I understand it, the main InDesign project file must be in a place where all contributors and the designer have access to it. So, if you're writing a proposal with an introduction, some biographies, a budget, and 2 case studies, the designer working in InDesign needs to break that project into 5 separate segments if they need to have one person contributing to each section. only one user can be 'checked in' to a specific section at a time. Something to remember though- InCopy allows multiple users to contribute to a single InDesign project, BUT. Long story made short, InCopy will save us a bunch of time and headaches compared to the old way we did some projects. This is LOADS better than multiple people printing out multiple copies of some huge proposal, marking it up with corrections, and then tossing it back to the designer who is then left to slog through a mountain of paper and hope they noticed everything some coordinator scribbled in the margins. The designer can print out or email a comp, and if any corrections are needed, the contributors can simply do it themselves right then and there in InCopy.

The designer can then work on graphics and styles and all that stuff while the other contributors can fire up InCopy, connect to their part of the InDesign file, and start getting content into it. The designer can create the main project in InDesign, and then divide the project into sections that can be assigned out to AEs, or copywriters or whoever is going to be providing the written content. We're in the process of more permanently implementing InCopy into our workflow for proposals and larger print/layout projects, and if anything it should be a huge time saver.

It might not be the best tool ever, but its pretty handy for our small (20 people) office. For those who just don't know, InCopy is pretty cool.

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