From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
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Placing Buzzword files in InCopy
From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
Placing Buzzword files in InCopy
Sometimes you are not responsible yourself for writing the copy; you are supposed to be importing it from the files that other people give you. So let's see how that will work with this cool new service that Adobe offers for free called acrobat.com, specifically the word processing software that's included with it called Buzzword. I'm looking at our Joshua Tree article and you can see the main story has not been imported yet. We do have the frames that the designer created for us and all the frames are threaded together, but somebody else has written a story. Now of course, they could have written in Microsoft Word and then we just go to File > Place, and place the Word file, but in this scenario, we might have a couple authors who are collaborating on this and they decided to use acrobat.com's Buzzword program to do the collaboration. Let's take a look at the Buzzword interface. I'm switching over to my browser, Firefox, where I've already logged in to acrobat.com. You can make a…
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