Hi,
InDesign has print options for Page Positioning under "Print > Setup > Options >> Page Position".
This allows for centering the printed objects on the page. EG Print an A4 document on A3 paper and have a wide area around the content for users to write on.
Is there something similar in InCopy for printing the "Layout View"? I've looked but have been unable to find anything useful.
Thanks. 
Is there a way to reuse paragraphs or content including graphics in an InDesign - InCopy workflow?
I do not want to reuse a complete chapter or assignment but maybe just a paragraph or a caution that I use throughout the document or in multiple documents, so that when I update the content it gets updated in all places at once? Thank you!
We publish a newsletter that is created in InDesign with links to articles created in InCopy. Suddenly, not all of the articles show up in the Assignments panel, although all have the globe/arrow link and all show up in the Links panel.
Hello,
We have a group of users in our company that only have incopy. This is done both for a control (no one changes layouts by accident) and for cost savings of not haveing the full suite for every user.
With this environment we have found that...
After any change to text via incopy, a person with adobe InDesign will need to open the file and update links so the .indd file will reflect the text changes.
This will need to happen after proofing or any other editorial changes along the way. This adds many steps to our workflow.
Ex:
Alyssa is editing a sustainability article with incopy (no indesign). She makes her edits and save the contents (copy fits, remove a punctuation etc). However, when viewing the .indd file in adobe CC, her changes are not reflected.
Bill (indesign user) had to open the file with InDesign, click update links (this is a popup box upon opening) and then save the file again, before the file would reflect the text changes.
Does anyone know of a way to get around this? It would be great if incopy could push the text changes to the .indd file without a seperate step.
Thank you,
Andy
Hi -
I need to get a large number of (product description) copy blocks from InCopy (or InDesign) into distinct cells in Excel, so that it can be uploaded to my ecommerce site. Currently it's a manual cut/paste operation that takes days. What Adobe software tools can speed or automate this? And exporting from PDF to Excel in Acrobat doesn't seem to help.
Can an incopy file be converted to Excel? converted to a table? Other ideas?
Thanks!
hi,
I'm using InCopy CC.
I created an assignment file (by exporting all the stories in the InDesign file). then i opened the assignment (witch includes 22 individual InCopy files) and exported those to rtf files.
Now, after i've received the 22 files back from the editor (22 rtf) i wanna save all of the back to InCopy so i can update them in InDsign.
InCopy's built-in script does not have this option (like the one i used to export all multiple InCopy file of the assignment to rtf).
Is there a way to do that without manually save every file back to InCopy format?
thanks!
I have to following applescript, and all I want to do is run a seach for a few lines and change the paragraph style that is applied to them. When I run the script, I get the following error: "Error String: Adoby InCopy CS3 got an error: Can't get paragraph style "~Paragraph1". Can anyone help me get this working?
I have this working with a regular find/change .xml, but need to string together about 5 or 6 different find/change results into one step (without using find/change by list). Thanks for any input!
tell application "Adobe InCopy CS3"
--Clear the find/change preferences.
set find text preferences to nothing
set change text preferences to nothing
--Remove the first four lines of the document
set find what of find text preferences to "^pLine one here^pLine two here^pLine three here^p"
--Set the find options.
set case sensitive of find change text options to false
set include footnotes of find change text options to false
set include hidden layers of find change text options to false
set include locked layers for find of find change text options to false
set include locked stories for find of find change text options to false
set include master pages of find change text options to false
set whole word of find change text options to false
--set the paragraph style of the found text
set myStyle to paragraph style "~Paragraph1"
set applied paragraph style of change text preferences to myStyle
--run the change
tell document 1
change text
end tell
--Clear the find/change preferences after the search.
set find text preferences to nothing
set change text preferences to nothing
end tell
Hi
I have some really naive questions about Incopy...
I thought I would try it out as a potential replacement for Word. I hoped I could separate the content and formatting for a long documnt but keep the two in an active editing mode concurrently until my document is finished - I had alot of trouble doing this in the past with linked Word files.
The first really dumb problems I have may be because I don't understand professional copy editing. I was trying to do very simple editing and was dumbfounded by the program's response. A simple backspace was not allowed while in galley or story mode and while I was in layout mode, i could backspace but I could not add new paragraphs...Is this all normal? Is there a way to get it to perform even more like a dead simple word pocessor?
Any advice about things I may be overlooking or issues I may want to reconsider in terms of my workflow would be greatly appreciated.
thanks so much in advance
Has a solution been brought
Automatic hyphen line-break when justifying - how do i disable?
I am working with multiple files that are often versions of one another. Rather than starting from scratch on some that are very similar, I unlink the assignments of one file and do a "save as" to create the new file, then create new assignments in the new folder. This works fine, but each time I open the file, I get the message "One or more assignment files cannot be found...". The new assignment files are there, are linked and work fine. Anyone know how to clear out the file's memory of the old assignment links?
Sorry if this is a repetitive thread - I couldn't seem to find anything posted on translations.
I am a one person marketing department, well versed in InDesign and translation the old fashioned cut n paste solution .. Being pressed for time - I'm looking to maximize on my time spent.
Can InCopy be used by my translators to remotly (from the other side of the world in most cases) translate my InDesign documents? What do I need to set this up? Do I need to purchase InCopy for each of them? Or is there some sort of online function I can use. Do I need to have an InDesign Server?
Sorry if these sound like really basic questions - I've never used InCopy before and have no idea where to even look for the answers!
We are working in the InCopy workflow with an off-site design group. Occasionally, we get reports that they are unable to relink indp files we have sent back to them from InCopy. Just so we understand the process, we have tried to replicate what we think the problem may be. This has led to some questions on our part regarding the InDesign part of the process. Here is what we have discovered so far.
If the InDesign file from which the InCopy package was issued is moved to another computer, the indp file will not link up with the copied file. This is true even if the InDesign assignment folder is moved along with the original InDesign file. At first the message appears:
The package file contains an assignment that doesn't exist in "filename.indd". Your package file may be out of date or associated with a different document. How do you want to continue? Browse to locate the correct document. or Save the contents of the package to disk.
If you select browse to locate..., and if you select the copied file, a loop results.
From this, it would seem that InCopy workflow recommends that InDesign files not be moved and that the InDesign assignment folder be saved in the same folder as the InDesign file and not moved. Is this the recommended practice?
For InDesign files that have moved, what is the workaround, if any, for relinking the returned indp file?
Terry
We're experimenting with installing InCopy CS4 on a Citrix Virtual Machine. We're getting the following error... (BTW, we have enterprise license)
This product has encountered a problem which requires that you restart your computer before it can be launched.
If you continue to see this message after restarting your computer, please contact either your IT administrator or Adobe technical support for help, and mention the error code shown at the bottom of this screen.
Error: 147:20
A few of our editors are looking for a way to have a predetermined line of text added to a story via a shortcut key. For example "if you would like to comment please write us at example@eg.com". We are using XP pro and InCopy CS5. I'm not familiar with scripting but if there is a way to do it using scripts I am not opposed to learning it.
If a user creates a file in InDesign CC and then tries to open it in InCopy CS6 they get the following error.
Missing Plug-ins, Cannot Open File
PACKAGE AND PREFLIGHT.APLN
The Doument "filename.indd" uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system. Do you want to open anyway?
This happens whether the copy of InCopy is on the same PC as InDesign or a seperate PC without InDesign. InCopy is installed seperately from the CC.
Clicking OK opens the file normally.
We have checked that both versions of the software match at v8.0.2.
I've heard it might be due to embedding of this file but the designers say they are not yet at the stage of packaging this file when they get this error so nothing should be embedded.
Can anyone help?
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Simon
We have a strange issue effecting one machine in our office — his layout mode in InCopy removes all hyphens from copy after he checks out copy and makes a change. It auto flows the words where any hyphenated word falls to the next line. As a result, his text flows over the end of the document and causes confusion.
We can't find a setting that will change this; not composer, etc. His settings, to our knowledge, match the rest of ours. Any ideas?
i want to purchase the font of Cronos MM ,but there is only cronos Pro is on sale . whether i can buy cronos MM on abobe store ? or is free for us to use. cause we decided to use cornos MM as our major font for a college branding project . If it's not free, could you tell me where can i buy this font?
We use the Incopy status bar to navigate to pages in a long document; however, the status bar is now grayed out. I tried trashing my preferences, but it's still grayed out. Any hints on how to turn this back on?