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Must InDesign and InCopy be on the same operating system?

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    • April 6, 2011 at 10:45 am #59191
      John McKercher
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      Quick question, the subject line says it all. I'm on a Mac, the publisher is on a PC and wants to use InCopy. Is that going to work? From what I've read so far it's not. Even when using all Opentype fonts you're still going to have typographic issues that will cause text reflow when moving from one system to another. Is this true?

      John

    • April 6, 2011 at 4:01 pm #59195
      Theunis De Jong
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      Even when using all Opentype fonts you're still going to have typographic issues that will cause text reflow when moving from one system to another. Is this true?

      Absolutely not.

      Only thing is, you need the same version and the same fonts.

    • April 7, 2011 at 6:35 am #59197
      John McKercher
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      Interesting. I'm assuming however if you were using postscriptt fonts you would not be able to work cross-platform, correct? Or perhaps you could do the text editing but as far as checking line endings that would have to be finalized in whichever environment would produce the final printer PDF.

    • April 7, 2011 at 12:14 pm #59200
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      The workflow will work even if you don't have the same fonts. The problem you'll see is the same as if you opened an InDesign file and didn't have the fonts. You get an alert/warning, the text gets the dreaded pink highlighting (non-printing) which you can turn off in Prefs, and the line endings might not exactly match that of the actual font.

      However it's all still fully editable. So the InCopy user could open the ID file in IC, check out the stories, edit them, check them back in, all without having any of the fonts used. When the ID user updates the editor's changes, they'll come through fine.

      In the real world it's a lot more pleasant to see the fonts used. So usually publications take the opportunity to move to x-platform Open Type fonts to avoid headaches. PC TrueType fonts can be used on a Mac. PostScript fonts can be problematic because of diff. naming conventions. You could use FontLab's Font Converter https://www.fontlab.com/font-converter/ to convert any font to any platform or even to OpenType; some of my clients have done this for specialty fonts for which there is no OpenType version.

      AM

    • April 7, 2011 at 12:35 pm #59201
      John McKercher
      Member

      Many thanks Anne-Marie, that's exactly the sort of info I was after.

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