From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
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Understanding stories and frames
From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows
Understanding stories and frames
This video is primarily for editors, people who are not familiar with Adobe InDesign, so that you can understand exactly how an InDesign document is constructed - well not every little detail - but you really need to understand by what I mean by story. And this might even be useful for InDesign users as well, because understanding what a story is, and the difference between a story and a frame is vitally important to understanding what exactly you share, what exactly you edit when you are working in a document together in the workflow. So, for example, when an editor opens up a document like this, they're initially quite confused because there is so much happening on this page. And if you click on these items, you can see the frames surrounding them, but in InCopy you don't have this handy little selection tool, so you can't really select frames, and that's what I want to talk about in this video. I've created this empty InDesign document, just one page long, called Frame Demo and…
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