Comments on: InDesign CS3: Mastering the Design-Editorial Collaboration http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/features/2007/indesign-cs3-mastering-the-design-editorial-collaboration/ The Authority for News & Opinion on the War of the Desktop Publishing Giants QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign Sat, 26 May 2012 01:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Viney http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/features/2007/indesign-cs3-mastering-the-design-editorial-collaboration/#comment-162258 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:05:04 +0000 http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/features/2007/indesign-cs3-mastering-the-design-editorial-collaboration/#comment-162258 Always the best content from these prdigoious writers. Always the best content from these prdigoious writers.

]]> by: Anne-Marie http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/features/2007/indesign-cs3-mastering-the-design-editorial-collaboration/#comment-46847 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:02:32 +0000 http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/features/2007/indesign-cs3-mastering-the-design-editorial-collaboration/#comment-46847 Pariah, a wonderful explanation of the workflow. Thanks for reprinting that. A couple things ... - Assignments are optional. InCopy users can open the layout and edit stories therein. It is not the .inca file that adds check-in/check-out, it is the consequence of linking an .incx file to a layout. - New in CS3: you can rename story files in the Assignments panel (whether they're part of an assignment or not) in either ID or IC by checking out the story and then doing a southern double-click (click once ... pause.. click again) on the filename in the panel. This doesn't rename the actual .incx file on the server (or break its link to it) but it does help users who need to see entries like "Headline" and "Caption" there. The renamed stories are maintained even after check-in and check-out by another users by virtue of a new .xml file that's generated and saved to the project folder when someone renames a story. - Editors working on standalone InCopy files (.incx) whether or not they're linked to a layout, see formatted text in Layout view, which can be helpful. (I think you said it was a blank page.) - If an editor opens a standalone InCopy file that's linked to a layout (I agree this is not a good workflow but it can come in handy sometimes), it's immediately checked out to them. No one else working on the layout or assignment containing that story can edit it until the editor closes the file. AM Pariah, a wonderful explanation of the workflow. Thanks for reprinting that.

A couple things …

- Assignments are optional. InCopy users can open the layout and edit stories therein. It is not the .inca file that adds check-in/check-out, it is the consequence of linking an .incx file to a layout.

- New in CS3: you can rename story files in the Assignments panel (whether they’re part of an assignment or not) in either ID or IC by checking out the story and then doing a southern double-click (click once … pause.. click again) on the filename in the panel. This doesn’t rename the actual .incx file on the server (or break its link to it) but it does help users who need to see entries like “Headline” and “Caption” there. The renamed stories are maintained even after check-in and check-out by another users by virtue of a new .xml file that’s generated and saved to the project folder when someone renames a story.

- Editors working on standalone InCopy files (.incx) whether or not they’re linked to a layout, see formatted text in Layout view, which can be helpful. (I think you said it was a blank page.)

- If an editor opens a standalone InCopy file that’s linked to a layout (I agree this is not a good workflow but it can come in handy sometimes), it’s immediately checked out to them. No one else working on the layout or assignment containing that story can edit it until the editor closes the file.

AM

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