From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Creating assignments in InDesign

Creating assignments in InDesign

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Creating assignments in InDesign

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Using an assignment based Workflow with Adobe InCopy and InDesign is in many ways more automated than using a layout- based workflow, because that assignments panel that we've been working with actually has a lot of commands that are related to creating assignments which we haven't yet done. An assignment is subset of an entire layout. If you imagine in this little diagram that the layout is this long document and from that long document the designer can export multiple individual assignments and each assignment just needs to be as large as one single spread from that long document, then in that way these assignments are faster to open up over the network, the designer has the option of keeping that layout on their local computer, which some especially Mac- based designers prefer, rather than working over the network, and as I said, Adobe InDesign and InCopy have automated ways of creating files and folders that are based on the presumption that you are using an assignment based…

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