Re: InDesign -opinions and long document template?

Subject: Re: InDesign -opinions and long document template?
From: eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:23:06 -0500


bounce-techwr-l-106467 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on 01/21/2005 10:51:13 AM:
> InCopy, an Adobe ID companion product, however, is
> intended to be used
> by authors, such as writers, correspondents, and
> reporters, to create
> content that InDesign workers incorporate into
> publications for final formatting and output.

Can anyone comment on the XML capabilities of InCopy? The brochure
(http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy/pdfs/incopy_ds.pdf) mentions very
little in way of specifics.

Maybe THAT's the future of FM users. A department with multiple InCopy
licences and a single InDesign licence.

Still means there's probably a lot more development needed in the two to
make for an FM equivalent.

> In this regard, if your Word documents are created with
> consistent use of styles and other features

ROTFL!!!

> The specific long-document features that InDesign lacks atthis time
> (InDesign 3.x, AKA InDesign CS) include footnotes,
> sequential numbering abilities, cross-references, running
headers/footers linked to
> bookmarks in text, are the ones that come to mind quickly.

Which could be overcome with scripting or other assembly methods before or
during the import of source files into InDesign.

Not having seen or used either product, this is all pure conjecture.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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