From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

A quick note from the instructor

From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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A quick note from the instructor

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- [Anne-Marie] Hey folks, this is Anne-Marie, recording at this moment using InDesign 2020. And I asked the people at LinkedIn Learning if I could add this video at the start of this course to explain why is this course still here even though it's from CS5. And the reason is that I cannot find another course like it anywhere, that goes into such depth of every feature in the InDesign and InCopy workflow. That's one. And two, 95% of what I talk about in this course is still true today, still the same interface in the InDesign and InCopy workflow. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I do think it's worth keeping up. There is a Layer course here by my friend, Chad Chelius, and it's a great course, but it doesn't go into as much depth because they usually don't do that anymore here at LinkedIn. What I have here on the screen is a layout that was created in InDesign 2020. And you can see that it's got the little icons. I think the icons have changed a bit since I recorded this course, but the Assignments panel is still here, and I still recommend that users use a layout-based workflow, as I'll explain in the first chapter. I still have InCopy that opens up the layout, so that users can check out stories and edit them. I actually teach the InDesign and InCopy workflow at least twice a month, and I have been for the past 15 years. It is still a very vital program used by thousands of people at different publishers and publishing departments and marketing communication departments around the world. So I'm very confident that it has a good life. It's just that there's not a whole lot of video training for it, and I know that this course probably cannot be done, again, in the same amount of depth as I did 10 years ago or so, when I did it for CS5. But I just want to point out that as you can see, in 2020, essentially everything is the same as it shows in this course. There no longer exists Buzzword, which was a service that Adobe used in olden days. But Word is still around, and editors and designers still struggle with Word files and the workflow. Everything else is really about the same. The only thing that's changed in InCopy is that it has kept up with InDesign's text-related features. For example, InCopy has a hyperlinks panel now, and the Cross References panel has been separated from it. I think they used to be together back in CS5. But InCopy itself, there's no new tools added. There's no extra views. The Story and Gallery look exactly the same. The Print dialogue, the Export to PDF dialogue box, are still the same, unfortunately. They haven't added new features there. Yet it is still one of the best workflows out there for anybody using InDesign, because you seldom write the copy. People give the copy to you, right? Anyway, that is the reason why this course is still here. If I ever read you the entire course in depth, of course we'll retire this, and LinkedIn Learning may decide to retire this course at some point anyway, but I wanted just to let you know up front that yes, I'm aware the course is old, but it's still great.

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