We have just upgraded to InDesign CS3 at work. However, our editor is working on our assignments and stories when we created them in CS2 (she is still working in InCopy CS2). When we modified our incopy files, we are getting the small pencil icon crossed through in our assignments and link panels in InDesign. They will not modify - only unlink! Is this a common problem between InCopy 2 and InDesign 3?

Regards

Brian

The other consequence of the INX/INCX similarity thing is that you probably won’t be able to work with InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS together, while the other way round might actually work. However, you will almost certainly have to cope with even more problems than with the CS3/CS2 combos in that case.

- I have requested a quote for 35 InCopy licences for one of my major clients…
- Our reseller (who’s a trusted one) sent me this quote and guaranteed me that it’s what he received from Adobe :

1 x Adobe InCopy CS3 Win UK - TLC License : $569 + 21% VAT

10 x Adobe InCopy CS3 Win UK - TLC License : $5,690 + 21% VAT

35 x Adobe InCopy CS3 Win UK - TLC License : $19,915 dollars + 21% VAT

If Adobe thinks that it can continue to have such a pricing policy towards Europe for just a text editor…………..

InCopy CS2 can’t open InDesign CS3 layouts … you get a “missing plug-ins” error message.

But it can open Assignments (.inca files) created with InDesign CS3. From my limited testing it looks like check-in/check-out, updates etc. work okay between the two apps.

This combination is far more problematic than the IC CS3/ID CS2 one, though. If the InDesign CS3 designer uses any CS3-only features that are normally shared in InCopy CS3 (such text variables, making style groups, advanced autonumbering of lists and so on), these get munged when a story is checked out in InCopy CS2, and the munging persists when the designer updates the editor’s changes back in ID CS3.

For example, if the designer inserts a text variable into a story, the variable is stripped out in IC CS2, and doesn’t reappear in ID CS3.

Or if a designer puts some paragraph styles in a group (in a folder in the Styles panel), those styles appear like this in IC CS2’s palette (assume “Body Styles” is the name of the folder):

Body Styles:Body first
Body Styles:Body space above

They still work in IC CS2, the editor can still apply the styles.

But when the ID CS3 user updates the story, their paragraph styles panel gets these “flattened” styles *added* to their panel. The ones in the folder are still there, plus the new ones with the colon.

And so on … yuck.

You don’t run into this so much with IC CS3/ID CS2 because unless the editors are working on a standlone IC CS3 document, these new CS3 features are all greyed out … the designer didn’t add them to the layout (because they couldn’t, they don’t exist in CS2), so they’re not available to the editor. It kind of forces everyone to stick with “lowest common denominator” CS2 features.

Will InDesign CS3 work with InCopy CS2? I know the InCopy upgrade is cheap ($89 I think), but I am just curious to see if it even works.