Fundamentals of Adobe InCopy CS4

Objectives

This course is designed for anyone who needs to edit files using InCopy or to experience an InDesign -InCopy workflow. It allows users to learn the control mechanism of the workflow and the InCopy editing features from their local computers. It also allows the delegates to experience checking out, editing and checking in files from a central server. This course can be customised to emulate any existing InCopy workflow the delegates may be using.


Pre-requisites:

Basic working knowledge of Windows or Macintosh operating systems.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Overview


· Understanding the InDesign - InCopy CS4 workflow
· Requirements and recommendations
· Layout workflows
· Assignments workflows
· Remote workflows



InDesign CS4


· Understanding stories and frames
· Defining User names and colours
· The assignments panel
· Making stories editable in InDesign



InCopy CS4


· Understanding files and which to open
· Understanding the InCopy Views and interface
· Document Navigation
· Editing in Layout view
· Editing in story and gallery view
· Copy fitting
· Applying style sheets to text



InCopy Tools


· The Glyphs panel
· Spell checking
· Changing language
· Thesaurus
· Find/ Change
· Auto correct














Tracking Changes in InCopy


· Creating and using notes
· The tracking changes feature
· Accepting and rejecting changes



Other InCopy features


· Workng with images
· Importing and replacing images
· Editing InCopy tables
· Conditional Text



Outputting from InCopy


· Printing
· Exporting to PDF
· Exporting stories



New InCopy documents


· Creating new InCopy documents and templates
· Opening work files in InCopy
· Inputting text



InDesign-InCopy Workflow features


· Layout workflows
· Editing and updating stories
· Assignment workflows
· Working with assignments
· Remote workflows
· Creating assignment packages
· Editing Assignment packages
· Updating assignment packages