If assignments have kept you from incorporating InCopy into your publishing workflow, don’t let them intimidate you. You don’t have to use assignments to benefit from using InCopy.
In this series of tips, we’ll show several methods to collaborate efficiently in InCopy and InDesign without assignments.
Method 2:
Method one discussed beginning the collaboration in InCopy. This method reverses the process for production, beginning in InDesign, and is most useful when production knows the space into which a story must fit, and thus the copy word count.
Within InDesign, designers create frames to hold the stories–either single holes or linked frames. Then, one at a time, the designer exports the selected story frame or frames to a new InCopy document stored in a central location on the server. Writers and editors then open the stories–which may or may not be blank–in InCopy, and go to work. Once saved from within InCopy, changed stories will cause a prompt in InDesign to update.
Again, at all times, the InCopy stories remain available to the editorial department, right up until the moment of final publication output.