From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Rewards and challenges in the new workflow

Rewards and challenges in the new workflow

From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Rewards and challenges in the new workflow

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Let's talk about the rewards and challenges of moving to the workflow. It's always a big deal to change the way that you work, especially moving from a linear workflow to a parallel workflow, I know. So, you really need to get a handle on why should you do it, why should you move, what are the advantages? But also, it's not all peaches and cream. All right, I don't work for Adobe, so I feel perfectly fine in telling you about some of the challenges that I've seen some clients encounter, but also how they work through the challenges. So the rewards are, first of all, that it is a much more accurate workflow. Because editors and writers can write to fit exactly, because they are writing within the layout using the same fonts and the same styles that the designers are, then if the story goes too long, they don't have to wait for the printout to come back, and be told, "This story is five lines too long. You need to edit it." They can edit it to fit. Obviously, this is not so critical for…

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