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 1:
Writers and editors can initiate new stories in InCopy without involving the designer until the stories are done or nearly done. Just create and save InCopy documents, and then deliver the documents to design and production via e‑mail or a server inbox. From there, they can be flowed into InDesign as linked files. If an editor updates the story, InDesign notifies the designer; then a single-click within InDesign updates the story in the layout.
At all times, the InCopy stories remain available to the editorial department, right up until the moment of final publication output.