From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Working with read-only layouts

Working with read-only layouts

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Working with read-only layouts

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One of my favorite kind of quiet features about InCopy is how it's actually an InDesign reader. Even if your designers say, no way, I am not going to go to the trouble of exporting these stories to InCopy, you can still use InCopy to at least access all of your archives. So you can select text from there, you can export them to PDF, you can make your own printouts without having to bug the designers for it all the time. So let me show what I mean. I'm going to go ahead and open up an InDesign file that is completely unprepared for InCopy workflow, and if you're following along, you can do the same thing. When you do so, what's going to happen is you're going to get an alert that says "Because this document contains no InCopy stories, Galley View and Story View are not available," because, as you know by now, Galley and Story View, their only purpose for being is to show you all of the editable content in the file. And if there's no editable content in the file, Adobe has decided…

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