Adobe Incopy Uses
Hortense Malovich
A clean install of InCopy CS6 from the Adobe disc on a new Mac generates the same error when opening the document. Opening the document in InDesign and exporting to idml, then re-opening makes no difference. Same error.
The root issue here is obviously that the extension is not recognized. I changed permisssions on the folder to no avail. As stated earlier, a fresh install on a new iMac and the extension will not load.
We are publishers of a magazine. One layouter on Indesign, and two writers on Incopy. What happens frequently is, that after a while, when the Indd-file becomes fairly big, Incopy stalls on opening the file. Sometimes it opens it in text-mode, but we can't switch to layout-mode. But mostly we don't even come that far. Right now, we are unable to open the file at all under Incopy. We have NO idea how to troubleshoot this, and it's seems independent of size, because we can open other large files. But it regularly happens with our magazine, once the file gets filled with graphics. Is there a log-file that would give us a clue what is happening?
Hi everyone. I'm using clean default installs of InDesign CC and InCopy CC. I attempted to open an INDD file in InCopy, and got an error message telling me IC cannot open the file because a plugin was not found.
I selected OK and in spite of the "cannot open file" header in the warning box and subsequent "do you want to open the file anyway" question in its fine print, the file opened without a problem. I then came here to the forum.
I write for a print magazine. I send my copy in as Word files; the copy desk and the art department make nice-looking pages; they send them back to me for final edit as .indd files. Usually, I just have to add or delete words to make it fit the page. I never touch graphics or layout.
I have a company-supplied copy of inDesign on my company-supplied PC laptop. I don't like to lug the PC around, so I got a Mac Air and bought my own copy of inCopy. With it, I can read and print the .indd files just fine on the Mac. I cannot copy-edit them.
What's the simplest thing I can ask the managing editor to do to make it so I can peform that final edit on the Mac iwith inCopy and send him back a file just like what he's used to?
I can't ask him to perform a lot of extra steps just so I don't have to tote around an extra 5 pounds. And I don't want to call IT's attention to the fact that I'm not using the inDesign seat they're paying for. (Hey, it IS my fallback.) But I have a feeling that we're already doing things the hard way.
No matter whether we work over the server, or completely locally when testing between InDesign and InCopy on my Mac; Opening InCopy Assignments is incredibly slow.- so it's nothing to do with network speed.
When opening an InCopy Assignment in InCopy, the progress bar seems to go smoothly until it gets up to the "Import snippet" bit of the process, it then stalls there for ages, before finally opening the file. Sometimes it can take up to 15 minutes to open 1 assignment (sometimes more but we usually force quit the application before it gets to that).
Could somebody shed some light on the "Import Snippet" part of the import/open process? Maybe the slowness i'm experiencing is something to do with my extensive use of Paragraph and Character styles in my InDesign documents?
I am not using any sort of linked Word Documents, Excel files etc. All my images in these test files are low res JPEG's. I do have a couple of Vector graphics copied and pasted from Illustrator in there, though i've tried deleting them and mit makes no difference. The fonts i'm using are Calibri and Cambria.
I am working on a 64 page document in InDesign CS4 (on the Mac) with 7 editors all on PC using InCopy CS4. The InDesign file resides on my desktop and the assignments and stories are on the server. Through lots of trial and error I have figured out how to at least to that.
Tonight as I am on my final draft all of a sudden I got the dreaded red question mark circle on all my assignments (InDesign). Today was the last day for editors to update their information of course. So everyone has been in there. Anyway, I was able to update all the stories associated with the assignments at least I think so, but the assignments all still have the question mark. I checked the server and the assignments seem to be there. I tried to save over them (change assignment location from my mac, )and even rename the assignments but the red question mark remains.
Are there any programs / utilities / scripts out there that will convert an icml file to a jpeg or pdf? I have some users who would like to have previews of incopy files in a system before they're attached to any sort of layout.
I'm asking this question for the editor that I regularly work with on projects. He works on a Windows laptop editing a lot of content that is designed on Intel Macs. We share multi-use fonts through Universal Type client but whenever we use system fonts, we run into the issue where different computers have different versions of the same font. So whenever he opens one of our documents in IC, he gets a missing fonts warning for fonts that he has (Times, Arial, Wingdings, etc.). Is there a way that he can set those fonts to be substituted by the system font versions that he has so that he can see the approximate flow using the correct font without having to actually replace the font (which would then mean that the designers would have to replace the font again when they reopen the file)? Hope that makes sense. I know IC uses a default font to substitute missing fonts, I'm just wondering if there is away to permanently assign certain fonts to substitute certain missing fonts.
I purchased the Master Collection 5.5. In various tutorials I am studying I have found InCopy mentioned, but I do not see a shortcut link to it anywhere on my PC (when I click on the buying guide, it immediately takes me to the suite comparison as if it should be present so that's really throwing me off .. and this is the Master Collection - you'd assume pretty much everything from Adobe would be in here)
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