Using InCopy
InCopy is great. Or is it? I work as a newspaper page designer and our writers recently switched from Word to InCopy, and as a result I can give them spaces on the page, paragraph- and character styles to work with, and all the terrors of importing microsoft rtf:s with all their attached problems are gone. We all love it, and the typo is great (because they can work with the headline on the page while I work with other stuff – we save time). The whole editorial system is now built around InDesign and it’s pretty smooth, even if Quark as a layout program was a lot faster, even on old G4’s. However, I’d like to hear comments on InCopy. It seems like it’s only used by bigger newspapers in their editorial systems ... why?

















10.Jun.2005 2.46pm
I haven’t heard of that product. Does it actually produce some sort of XML output?
10.Jun.2005 3.32pm
I’ve been thinking of getting InCopy. I’m a freelance designer, but I produce everything from business cards to books in InDesign and I detest problems with Word. I think you’ve convinced me!
10.Jun.2005 7.26pm
yes, xml-tagging was the big hype at the adobe seminar I was attending a year back, i dunno, print is all i do ...