InCopy Workflow Posts

Adobe’s senior product manager for InDesign and InCopy was interviewed at length in the always-cool TechByter podcast. Check it out!

Prevent accident changes to finalized content by exporting to InCopy.

A neat little solution for saving versions of stories in an InDesign layout, InVersion just needs a few more testers.

The Notes panel is an amazing way to add comments to a document; too bad it hides the notes so well.

Sometimes you learn something that is new to you, but obvious to others. I compiled a list of things I have learned in the last year that I probably should have known.

Nothing spreads holiday fun like festive music. So raise a cup of cheer and hum along to everything you learned in 2008.

Here’s a very important warning for InMath users, and a software update.

We’re happy to announce that our new “sister” site, InCopySecrets.com, is live and on the air!

InCopySecrets.com provides news, links, tips, and techniques for people working in an Adobe InDesign/InCopy workflow: editors, writer, designers, and production staff and management.

Sarah wrote,

There’s a way to search for overset text in an InDesign file, but it’s not on the surface … that is, there’s no user interface for it, like a checkbox in

In an earlier post I presented a workaround for entering non-native language diacritics (like the grave accent in à la carte) by using InDesign’s built-in spellchecker, which can add them for you. It’s a slick solution, but it requires some set-up — you have to enter a word incorrectly and have InDesign correct it.

I recently learned of a better way to insert any difficult glyph into the text flow, correctly, on the fly: Peter Kahrel’s compose.jsx script for Adobe InDesign (Mac/Windows, CS2/CS3, donationware — download instructions are at the end).