From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Adobe InCopy and InDesign work together through the magic of Adobe's plug-ins that are included with each program and installed automatically. They allow InDesign users to make stories editable to InCopy users, and they allow InCopy users to see and edit their stories in place, in the layout. This video tutorial series covers the essentials of how the two programs work together. As you can see, I'm going to start out with the very first chapter, about why use InCopy? What are the advantages of using the program, what are some challenges you need to look out for, and how to set up your network. In the next chapter, I'm going to take a simple InDesign layout and just bring it all the way through the workflow. We'll open up the layout in InDesign, make the stories editable for InCopy users, and then open up that same layout out in InCopy, check stories out, edit them, update the layout in InDesign, and then wrap it all up in InDesign, just so you can get an idea of how it works from…

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