Comments on: Tracking Text Changes

By: rich

rich — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:29:59 +0000

Hello Rose,

EMS is still very much alive and kicking!

You should be able to get hold of some one by emailing:

info [at] emsxt.com

Hope that helps.

By: rose

rose — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:34:15 +0000

Hello All:

I’ve been to the EMSxt website to enquire about the blacklining software and their email, phone number and online inquiry form are not functioning. Is this company still in business?!

By: Babs

Babs — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:28:23 +0000

We use Blacklining with InDesign CS3 in our current workflow and we are finding it an absolute nightmare to work with. We have discovered CtrlChanges but it doesn’t have the ability to merge revisions like Blacklining does. Peter’s thread above is freaking me out as we are launching an InCopy workflow into our studio next month. Please help, has anyone used Blacklining previously but found another, more stable and affordable alternative?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:18:58 +0000

Though this discussion is rather old, it is not outdated. And when you search for ‘track changes’in the help of CS5, it brings you here.
Blacklining still has some features that track changes doesn’t have. For example: you could see all the changes that were made in revision round 1, 2, etc. You could merge changes into one revision. You could make a printout of a specific revision. However: the combination of Blacklining AND InDesign AND InCopy is terrible! It leads you to many problems. I would even say that this combination is not tested properly.
The track changes option of CS5 is an improvement in combination with InCopy: in CS4 you would have to open all stories in InCopy, activate track changes there, and then check all the stories in again. Now you can activate change-tracking without going to InCopy first.

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:40:53 +0000

@Larua B – CS4 did not change the ability for InDesign Users to see tracked changes.
Maybe at some point in the future they will add this ability.

By: Laura B

Laura B — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:35:53 +0000

I’m wondering if Adobe added any new features in CS4 to address tracking formatting changes per Kevin’s question on April 2nd, 2008 and Anne-Marie’s response on October 10, 2008.

Thanks,
Laura

By: KatieK

KatieK — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:12:26 +0000

Thanks so much Anne-Marie! I appreciate your expert advice.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:33:18 +0000

No, the designer cannot see what changes each editor made to the copy. All they know is that the story is out of date and so they update it.

It’s like a designer updating an out of date Photoshop file. They don’t know what the artist changed, all they know is it’s out of date.

However if it’s really critical to your workflow; you could get the editor to export Story or Galley view to PDF and inlclude the track changes markup, then supply the design with that PDF; or the designer could purchase InCopy and think of it as a $249 plug-in So they can see the track change info for themselves.

By: KatieK

KatieK — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:24:39 +0000

I am new to InDesign and have been researching InCopy to see if it will be an effective program for our workflow. One of our designers asked me if she could see which editor (who would be using InCopy) made what changes at what time in InDesign. I know that the editor can see the track changes in InCopy and that any changes will let the designer know that the file has been modified, but can the designer actually see the track changes made by the editor in InDesign before accepting/updating the content? Is this possible without an additional plug-in? Please forgive me if this point has already been clarified, but I wanted to confirm this before making the jump to InCopy.

By: CrazyCat

CrazyCat — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:55:41 +0000

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