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• • October 24, 2017 at 6:48 pm #99203
    Ghaleb Fares

    Member

    Hello;

    How can i understand the real difference between (Indesign) and (Incopy)?
    Thanks.

  • October 24, 2017 at 7:37 pm #99204
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Good question! InCopy is for editors and writers. You can learn more here: https://incopysecrets.com

  • October 25, 2017 at 12:52 am #99215
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    Ghaleb, the short answer is “geometry”.

    A bit longer: Break up the process:
    1. Create a new document > InDesign
    2. Create and arrange textframes and images > InDesign
    3. Do all your typo stuff > InDesign AND InCopy
    4. Export a final highres PDF for printer > InDesign

    Of course, this isn’t so easy, that you have only 4 steps. E.g. a layouter can create para styles and the editor can use them. But the InCopy editor can also create styles …

    A good starting point for a better understanding is the site, that Davis has mentioned. Here I can recommend the InCopy-Training at lynda.com (linkedIn)

    Kai

  • October 26, 2017 at 3:40 pm #99249
    Ghaleb Fares

    Member

    Thanks. I’ll do my best, but is it right to write in incopy and edit in indesign? or both in incopy or in indesign?
    Any advices!

  • October 26, 2017 at 10:35 pm #99252
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    What is your meaning for “edit”? The big benefit with InCopy is the same Textengine as in InDesign. You can write and edit in both programs, but you can only change geometry (move and create frames) in InDesign.

    If you watch the first 4 videos in the mentioned InCopy-Training, there is everything explained.

    Kai

  • October 27, 2017 at 2:43 pm #99273
    Ghaleb Fares

    Member

    I mean, if indesign have the all icnopy capability, why will use incopy?

    Best wishes.

    • October 27, 2017 at 3:42 pm #99274
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      So editors (who don’t know a thing about Indesign can make text corrections via InCopy) and not screw up the InDesign file.

      That’s the main reason for me. Personally, I don’t even like them using InCopy. I’d rather they annotate PDFs or do it the old-fashioned way–write it on the page proofs and we will make the corrections in InDesign.

      Makes it way too hard to hard for me (and the proof room) to check stuff when they use InCopy. We have no idea what was added or deleted, if it was spelled correctly, etc.

  • October 28, 2017 at 6:56 pm #99282
    Ghaleb Fares

    Member

    That’s it. Thank you Dwayne.

  • October 31, 2017 at 6:04 am #99296
    Olaf Nelson

    Member

    Dwayne: You can make sure track changes is enabled for all the stories they have access to. It’s annoying that we can’t see those tracked changes in the layout (only in story editor), but it does at least give us the ability to reject or refine their changes. The trick is remembering to turn that on BEFORE giving them the green light to edit. I seem to forget about half the time, so I’m often unsure what they did in the first round of edits.

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