From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Layout workflow overview

Layout workflow overview

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Layout workflow overview

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I've been using a layout-based InDesign/InCopy workflow throughout all of these lessons so far. As I said at the very beginning the reason I do so is that I think it's the simplest for new users to get their heads around. Actually, in the world it's all that's necessary for most publication workflows. So, in this chapter I want to go over the basics of using a layout-based workflow. If you remember from slides at the beginning of the title in a layout-based workflow the layout, which is represented by that little document with the red star in a blue circle in yellow triangle, sits on the server and everybody works on that layout off the server. The designer in InDesign opens up the layout over the network and the editor is using InCopy. Copyeditor, author and so on, they also open up the layout over the network. Only one InDesign user technically can have the layout open at once. However, many InCopy users can also have the layout open concurrently even while the designer has it open.…

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