From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Requirements and recommendations

Requirements and recommendations

From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Requirements and recommendations

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There are just a few things you need to do to get started with the InCopy and InDesign workflow. Really, there are only a couple of requirements. The rest are mainly recommendations. The one requirement is that you need to install InCopy. So InCopy needs to be installed on anyone's computer who wants to be able to edit the stories within the InDesign layout, and doesn't own InDesign, in other words, the editors and writers and so on. Sometimes, I found that the editorial computers at a company are the dregs of the dreggists. They get their hand me downs, because normally, somebody who is an editor just needs to work in Word and Outlook, or something like that. But now that they're going to be opening up like two-page spreads with images and so on, in InCopy, over the network, and they have fonts loaded, and so on. But now that they're going to be opening up larger files over the network, two-page spreads from InDesign, opening those up right in InCopy, you may find that they need to…

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