Adobe incopy tutorials how to#
Adobe incopy tutorials series#

It's not going to actually open up that file. So what happens when you choose that command is it wants to know where is the InDesign document or the InCopy document that has these styles that you want to bring in, and I know it is from this example of the Joshua tree article. That means load all paragraph and character styles. Open of the Paragraph Styles panel and from the Paragraph Styles panel menu choose Load All Text Styles. So how do you get the styles from this document into here? It's actually quite easy. Even though we see the text breaking, this text might break completely differently once we change the correct typeface and type size. But what's missing here, let's go ahead and like just fill some placeholder text, is we need to know the styles as well. Now unfortunately in an InCopy file you can't have more than one column of text. Let's say this is a preset and we'll call it California Magazine feature, click OK, and there is a typical column. Not facing pages, 12 pica wide, I want a depth of we will say 1500 words.

We are going to do a few more things to it in addition to setting up these attributes and then we'll save it as a template. Let's go ahead and create a new InCopy document.

So now I know 1500 words or 1450 and 12 picas wide. I believe this is supposed to be 12-pica wide column. Yeah, there we go, and put my cursor right here, and I am watching the ruler at the very top. Then I will just move my cursor to align with the right edge of this frame. So I'm going to move the zero point right smack up to the left of this first column and now that's where zero starts. Although you cannot drag guidelines out, you do have rulers that you're looking at, and in the upper left-hand corner you can change the zero point. I can always ask the designer, 'Please select this frame with your Selection tool and tell me the width,' but here is a sneaky way you can do it in InCopy. Now it's a lot easier to measure stuff in InDesign. The other thing I need to know in a new document is what is the text width? What's the width of a typical column? So I need to figure out what the column is here. Or maybe I will just say 1500 and I know the designer can add some scotch room. So in my new document I want to set up a target word count of say 1400 or 1450, and that way I know it's going to roughly fit. For example if I click inside the story I can see what the word count is. So if you have an old one from before you guys moved to InCopy, you can open up that InCopy as a read-only file because you could still get basically what you need. We are not actually going to be editing anything in this layout. The best thing to do then is to open up an issue of that publication, and it doesn't have to have stories exported to the workflow as you see here. We want to use the same column width view, so we can sort of proof column breaks, and the same character count.

Adobe incopy tutorials series#

We're going to be writing lots of stories for this feature series in the magazine and we want to use the styles that are used in this story. So let's say that we have a magazine about California and we have a regular feature story and here is one instance of the feature story.

Adobe incopy tutorials how to#

This is what we're going to look at and I'm going to show you how to do in this video. If you've decided to use InCopy as a stand-alone word processor in order to write articles ahead of the layout, editorial driven workflow kind of thing, then wouldn't it be great to be able to create a document that has all the styles used in that InDesign document and the correct width? And that way, you could just keep using that same InCopy document as a template and doing Save As for every issue and then writing a new story for each issue.