InCopy/InDesign question

Can inDesign users edit InCopy-created stories that are laid out in InDesign (without an InCopy license)?

Hurry and buy CS5.5 now. You can work that with one exception. Remote packaging won’t work.
Dropbox is very good alternative to that. But again. HURRY! Come Monday CS5.5 won’t be available and nothing will work.
You should be eligible for a free upgrade to CS6 as well.
Bob

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Is is possible to use creative cloud as a shared volume for collaboration between incopy & indesign?

I'm a designer student and as a designer, I constantly have to make decks for presentations. I typically work in a group of six and because I'm confident with graphic design, I tend to be the leader of these tasks. I've found the best workflow for slide creation is Indesign. Unfortunatly, I'm just an awful writer— so when I heard about Incopy's collabrative features(saw the post from indesign's facebook page) I saw oppertunity and got very excited. My teamates and I typically all have subscriptions to adobe cc because of this, I was wondering (since I havent used it at all) if the storage given out from adobe cc was able to be that shared volume that is required for the live link between incopy stories and indesign layouts.
Therefore,
Is is possible to use creative cloud as a shared volume for collaboration between Incopy & Indesign?
If this needs any further clarification I'll gladly write a more detailed question — lastly, if this is not possible might you suggest an alternative? Please assume that we go to school together but we work offsite also.

You will not be able to use the Files page at https://creative.adobe.com/files for collaboration in this way. But you can share individual files in this way.
When folder sharing is available this will be possible.

InCopy/Indesign workflow issues

I have an InCopy/Indesign collab workflow question.
Myself (designer) and a colleague (writer) are trialling using InCopy 6 with InDesign CS5.5. There seems to be issues with the InDesign document refreshing once the writer has made changes using InCopy, and vice versa. We are working on the same server. .icml files don't seem to give alerts in InDesign that they need to be updated.
Can anyone see any reasons why this may be happening?

Thanks, yes I suspected the different versions could have been a problem.
What do you mean you don't get alerts?
When the InDesign document has been edited and saved using InCopy, the text box links (.icml files) that were edited should automatically appear as out-of-date in the links panel when it is next opened in InDesign, just as other links are displayed when they have been edited. But this doesn't happen, and I then have to manually update them to make sure they are the latest version of the link.
Any thoughts? Could this all just boil down to using the same version of software?
Thanks in advance.

InCopy/InDesign CS3 Assignment Problem

Hello everyone--
For the past three years we've used Version Cue CS3 for workflow on our publication. For the most part its worked fine. Recently though, we've had to get a new computer for an office on the West Coast and a new router on our office on the East Coast (the operating system we use on the East Coast is Windows XP Profesional.) The computer on the West Coast is running Windows 7, and it seems InCopy CS3 installed on it without a problem--until it came time to do our publication.
The way our system is set up is the West Coast machine uses a VPN tunnel to see our network here--so all it really has to do is connect to the Version Cue server's IP address. This set up worked fine when the machine was a Windows XP based machine, but since the changeover, InCopy doesn't seem to be reading the assignment files correctly. For example, on an Indesign File the copy fits fine and dandy in the layout, and the assignment looks okay when I open it up on InCopy over here. When InCopy opens it up on the Windows 7 machine, the body copy is invariably 3-5 lines over and any formatting changes made from the Windows 7 machine, like changing words to italics, won't be reflected on the updated assignments file. (I confirmed this by emailing our West Coast editor the assignment file directly and InCopy CS3 still wasn't reading it correctly.) Also, at one point we apparently lost some big changes made over the weekend but changes like new headlines held. Any ideas on why this is happening?
Also, and I'm not sure this is related, but since we installed our new RV082 router, we've been getting strange "Version Cue server offline messages" every so often, and then when we go into a project Version Cue suddenly reads it as "online and connected" again. InDesign CS3 often hangs whenever we try to open up a file on the Version Cue server. The only way we've been able to get InDesign to start up is to delete the recovery folders and synchronize everything first--this, needless to say, has been a bit of a time waster.
All our programs are CS3 and except for the West Coast machine, all are running Windows XP pro.
Thanks for your help!

We are installing and using the software under the administrator logins.
My main concern is that we purchased computers that have a processor that is incompatible with Adobe InCopy/InDesign CS3. We purchased two types of PC's, some with AMD Atholon II processors and some with Intel Core2 vpro processors. InDesign/Incopy CS3 were going to go on the Intel's (more power computer) and the InCopy was going to only go on the AMD's.
Prior to receiving the CS3 versions of the software, I hadn't been aware that was the version we were being assigned by our corporate office. After looking at the requirements of CS3 on the adobe site, it only mentions Intel Processors as basic requirements.
(We purchasd the computers with AMD's to save some money....the users requiring InCopy didn't need "as much computer" as the InDesign users).
Could the processor be the problem?

Incopy / Indesign workflow

To Incopy / Indesign users
Would anyone recommend a CS6 / CC workflow which includes Incopy and Indesign.
Regards
Vividi

No, InDesign and InCopy need to be at the same version.

Indesign-incopy-indesign workflow problem

sorry for my bad english :)
i hope someone can help me, i have no more ideas ...
this is the problem in our indesign-incopy-indesign work flow:
only the indesign user, which has created the indesign file (with the incopy-links) can read the content pasted via incopy.
every other indesign user (who hasn't anything to do with the creation of the indesign-file) can't see the content (which is pasted via incopy).
changes done with indesign are viewable for everyone!
there are any problems with the linkage, i would guess ...
if you change the links for every single text-part manually (to the correct location on the version cue server), there are no more problems ...
the linkage is changed like this:
doesn't work:
\\Home-server\home-mydocs\AndererUser\Version Cue\DataSheets\fileX...
works:
C:\Documents and Settings\Ich\My Documents\Version Cue\DataSheets\fileX...
it also works for everyone, after the first indesign user (which has created the file) has opened the indesign-file, updated the incopy links and checked the file in.
everyone has admin-rights, the project is shared ...

Hi Ruffus,
Unfortunately different versions of InDesign and InCopy do not work well with each other. Newer versions of the program should be able to open older files, but they cannot save backwards. I am not sure what is causing the errors with the newer versions of InCopy however.
Are you able to open the CS6 InCopy files on your computers?

InCopy / InDesign CS3 - won't load software but appears in task mgr

We are going through a computer upgrade and am trying to install Adobe CS3 InCopy and InDesign on these new machines.
We purchased HP 6005 Pro PC's with AMD Athlon II processors and are running Windows XP operating system.
Installing both pieces of software goes though fine. But when you try to turn on the programs, nothing happens. Nothing loads on the screen. The only thing shows that the software is running is in the Task Manager.
We have plenty of memory, plenty of hard drive space. But we can't figure out why the software won't load onto our screens. After extensive research online, the only thing we can find is that there could be a driver incompatibility. Nothing conclusive on whether our processors are incompatible either.
Does anyone have any insight on the issue?

We are installing and using the software under the administrator logins.
My main concern is that we purchased computers that have a processor that is incompatible with Adobe InCopy/InDesign CS3. We purchased two types of PC's, some with AMD Atholon II processors and some with Intel Core2 vpro processors. InDesign/Incopy CS3 were going to go on the Intel's (more power computer) and the InCopy was going to only go on the AMD's.
Prior to receiving the CS3 versions of the software, I hadn't been aware that was the version we were being assigned by our corporate office. After looking at the requirements of CS3 on the adobe site, it only mentions Intel Processors as basic requirements.
(We purchasd the computers with AMD's to save some money....the users requiring InCopy didn't need "as much computer" as the InDesign users).
Could the processor be the problem?

InCopy/InDesign issue with checkout/edit

Not sure if anyone else has come across this in dealing with InDesign/InCopy. We use both for many of our projects (i.e., newsletters, plans, reports) but are having issues with the InCopy being able to check out stories for editing. Sometimes the user cannot select the file at all, even though the stories have been exported. Sometimes, they can check them out, but it won't allow them to update? We've installed all the updates to the programs, that were supposed to solve some of the issues, but this must be a different issue all together? Is anyone else experiencing these issues?

We are installing and using the software under the administrator logins.
My main concern is that we purchased computers that have a processor that is incompatible with Adobe InCopy/InDesign CS3. We purchased two types of PC's, some with AMD Atholon II processors and some with Intel Core2 vpro processors. InDesign/Incopy CS3 were going to go on the Intel's (more power computer) and the InCopy was going to only go on the AMD's.
Prior to receiving the CS3 versions of the software, I hadn't been aware that was the version we were being assigned by our corporate office. After looking at the requirements of CS3 on the adobe site, it only mentions Intel Processors as basic requirements.
(We purchasd the computers with AMD's to save some money....the users requiring InCopy didn't need "as much computer" as the InDesign users).
Could the processor be the problem?

InCopy/InDesign

I've just started at a new magazine and I think the Incopy/InDesign is set up incorrectly. Just need someone to clarify. As it's being used, when the designers begin a layout, they cut the copy out of editorial file and paste into their layout in InDesign. This, of course, means that the editors can no longer work in the file until it's attached.
My experience has been that designers should have read only capability to the text file and should only be able to copy and paste the text into the layout for design purposes. Editors can continue to work on the text. Once the text is attached to the layout then editors are locked out.
Yes? No? Should I have the entire staff retrained?

Thank you so much. I have a feeling that the whole system isn't set up correctly because neither editors nor designers are getting the "update geometry" boxes when in fact the layout or copy has changed.
I was trained at another company and the system worked perfectly. When I got here and saw what was happening I was completely confused. Thought I was going crazy. The production manager we had has left so I now have the opportunity to start over.
Thanks for the information about the tutorials. First, I'm going to get a K4 expert in to make sure that everything has been installed correctly. Then I'll definitely check out the video tutorials.

New user working with InCopy CC, question re: Indesign 5.5 compatibility

Hi all,
I'm asking a question on behalf of one of our editors who works off-site, who we have recently purchased an InCopy CC subscription for.
Our studio uses InDesign 5.5, and they've been attempting to share files with our Editor, so that she can make changes to them etc.
As the Editor is off-site, this makes giving support to her slightly difficult (and her IT/Tech knowledge is limited), but from what I can gather she is able to open the InDesign 5.5 files in her version of InCopy CC and she can 'zoom in' on these files once opened, but she's currently unable to use the text tool to edit the text.
This Editor is the only employee in the company with InCopy, so we're unable to take a look at it our end, and our own knowledge of that product is non-existent.
Do you know if the problem she's experiencing is based on compatibility between the two products (InDesign 5.5 and InCopy CC), or is it lack of product knowledge on her part (and ours, too)?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff.

You will need to upgrade to InDesign CC for this workflow to function
properly.

Incopy/indesign version compatibility question

Hi all,
I feel like this should be something easy to find in Adobe's information, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm just slow.
OK, we are a small (free) weekly newspaper. The person who puts the paper together uses InDesign CS5. We do not currently have InCopy. We would like to get InCopy for one of our editors, to work with in the documents made by the person with InDesign CS5.
My question of course being...since we can apparently only buy InCopy CS6 now (maybe 5.5 if we really hurry) will it be able to work with the older version of InDesign, or would our InDesign need to be updated to CS6 as well?
Being a small free paper, we cannot afford to do that...thus my question. While I understand I could have called an Adobe rep, I don't have time to deal with a sales person at this point, just trying to gather information for my boss.
Thanks!

Hurry and buy CS5.5 now. You can work that with one exception. Remote packaging won’t work.
Dropbox is very good alternative to that. But again. HURRY! Come Monday CS5.5 won’t be available and nothing will work.
You should be eligible for a free upgrade to CS6 as well.
Bob

Problems locating assignments using InCopy/InDesign CS5

We have recently introduced an InDesign/InCopy CS5 workflow into our studio. We've come up against a big problem we are hoping someone can shed some light on.
1. We make an Assignment and package for InCopy.
2. The InCopy user edits, checks back in.
3. When opened back to InDesign, we get these two messages:
We are currently just in trial stage and are running between two different Mac OS (10.6.4 and 10.5.8) and sharing files off a PC server running Windows 2003. We changed from AFP to SMB to support longer character names. None of our file names have been moved, renamed or deleted in any way. When we 'Browse to locate the correct document', we go into a never-ending loop of finding and linking but not actually getting anywhere. If we just open the InDesign file, we get the red hexagon and question mark symbol. We click on it, select Update All Assignments, which it does and clears the hexagon symbol however, it duplicates the .imca file in our Assignments folder. Also once we save and reopen, we get the hexagon symbol again.
What could it be?

Bob,
We've discovered the problem, I wanted to let you know for future reference. It was to do with a third-party software plug-in we have called Blacklining. We originally used Blacklining in CS3 when all files we worked on needed the plug-in or even a dummy plug-in for anyone else in our studio or print houses to access. This was written out of CS4, however we migrated straight onto CS5 so therefore every previous document made in CS3 still had the Blacklining plug-in attached. We only ever put the plug-in into our Applications folder when packaging for print. So when the plug-in was not in the Applications folder, we got the problems described. When the plug-in was placed back in the folder, it worked seemlessly.

How do i clear all previous track changes in Incopy/Indesign

Hi,
I have an old document which i now need to work on again. We worked on the same document last year and we are going to use the old text and just rewrite it.
We are many people involved and the things is that all our previous changes from last year are still visible. I would like to clear all the changes from last year to get the text "clean".
We want to have new track changes to see all the new changes that are being made.
How do I do that?
I am working in Indesign and the team I am working with are using Incopy. I do the design and they handle the text.

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InDesign question

How can I create a link between a rolling frame and a cover or pages of my magazine? I made a frame with an index of the pages of the magazine, but I can't make a link. The meaning is when I tap on the cover or a different page we to see the table of content and the top navigation bar and when I tap again It disappears. How can I do this in Indesign CC?
Kind regards, José Troullioud

Natalie,
You're going to have a hard time getting your questions answered in this forum. This forum is for programmers, and there aren't a lot of programmers who are InDesign experts.
There are a lot of sites that have message boards devoted to working with programs like InDesign. Some sites that come to mind include MacAddict, Macworld, MacNN, MacOSX.com, and MacOSXHints.com. You'll get your questions answered faster if you post your question at one of those sites.
Mac OS X (10.4)

CS5 Indesign question

I have a question about CS 5 Indesign, When I go to print a document, I cannot get the option for a certain line screen when the color is on composite.
When I have it on separation , I am able to put it on any line screen. I called the support line and no one was able to help me. Please if anyone knows how to fix this let me know. Thanks

An exact answer depends on the exact wording of your question.
"Are CS5 and CS6 files compatible with each other?" NO.
But a longer, and more accurate, answer is "They are, up to a certain point and with proper precautions."
1. You cannot open a 6 file in '5 or earlier. To be able to, save your file as IDML -- that *can* be opened by earlier versions, at least one or two. (Saving back to a CS3 compatible format, for example, takes more effort and a working CS4.)
2. When saving as IDML, the file ought to open exactly as it was with the original version. If there were any new features used in the file, they will be (silently!) ignored by older versions.
3. Due to code changes, there might be a change in text flow. Nothing you can do about it, text is always reformatted according to the internal rules of the version you open it with.
4. Older version files ought to open right away in a newer version. "Ought to", because the latger the difference in version, the larger chances *something* might fail. Apart from that, the text might also reflow, as per point 3.
So you see, the correct answer to "are they compatible. depends more on how much time you have to answer it.

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