Questions

How can I install a previous version (17.4.1)? All the instructions online do not match what i m seeing in creative clouds apps. The instructions usually say click on the ... next to the inCopy app which should open a menu where one can select other Versiosn. However, this option simply does not exist for me. Is there a direct link to download an installer of the version i want ? Or how can one get this option in creative clouds ? The most current version is not compatible with my device and i dont see any reason to upgrade my system for a simple tool like inCopy. Thanks

When I export a pdf from InDesign, I am given the option to "include visible guides and grids." I cannot find this option when I try to export a pdf from InCopy. Is it not available, or am I just not looking in the right place? 

Good Morning,We have been testing a new cloud based server, and we are a magazine. What we did is create test files and only work off of those. The test was to see if Incopy Links could be accessed through this server and could the work be done remotely.We did not throw out the assignments on the test files. This was done deliberately.What we have found was the copy we made to our test files ALSO came across to our main server - that since we were not working with the original files we did not expect them to change. Yet they did.We think that it has to do with every version of a link changes, reguardless of where it's at.Has anyone else had similar experiences, and what did you do to solve any issues?Thank you in advance.

Hi all, I introduced my colleague to Text Macros on InCopy last week. He created a lot but he's opened up InCopy today and they've all gone. Where do Text Macros save and how might he be able to get them back? He's a Windows user. Any ideas welcome, thanks in advance.

I am seeing a prohibit symbol (circle with a slash through it) when trying to make an edit in the layout view of InCopy. Anybody know what that means?

Tengo mi propia licenncia pagada de InCopy 2023, pero necesito usar otros programas para los cuales aún no salen las versiones compatibles a esta última versión (WoodWing y Font Explorer) La página de Adobe solo tiene dos versiones más antiguas disponibles y ninguna es la del 2020. ¿Cómo podría hacer? 

I need to install Adobe InCopy 2020 (15.1.3) on Windows 10 and MAC. But I don't see older versions in creative cloud, Does anyone know where i can get these installers?. Thanks

Hola recientemente hemos adquirido Indesign e Incopy, el maquetador trabaja en Indesign y pone a disposición las páginas con sus respectivas asignaciones para los redactores en Incopy, pues bien, hay muchas veces que cuando el redactor hace cambios en Incopy y reegistra asignaciones, luego el maquetador no las vé en Indesign, no le aparecen guardadas, pero si el maquetador abre la página con Incopy si le aparecen los cambios. Trabajamos todos en un ordenador/servidor con una carpeta compartida y cuando el redactor cierra la página con los cambios bien guardados el maquetador no puede verlos en Indesign pero sí en Incopy. Esto porqué puede ser.Adjunto pantallazo de mismo documento, uno abierto con Indesign y el mismo con IncopyAgradeceria ayuda ya que nos crea muchisimos conflictos   

 ALl week we have been getting this message.Anyone know how to fix this?

Compré la mensualidad de InCopy ¿Dónde encuentro las versiones anteriores? Mi computadora no soporta la nueva y dan a entender que se puede usar una vieja.Dejo la liga https://helpx.adobe.com/es/incopy/system-requirements/earlier-versions.html

Hello everyone,we separated a large document in InDesign into a book (.indb) and created asssignments, which are edited by our customer in InCopy. Is it possible for them to export alle pages of the book InCopy to a PDF (like in the InDesign book window)? Our customer sometimes needs the whole document in one file for preview purposes and is not able to merge the PDF files. Thanks in advance,Diana

Hi - we're using editors with limited access to the internet, and so are using an email-based workflow. I set up the files in InDesign, and export assigned spreads to an assignment which I then package to an icap file and mail to the editor. This works fine some of the time, but quite frequently the editor comes across a problem with not being able to check out some of the stories in InCopy, with the error message "Unable to check out this file. It may be in use by someone else". The only solution we've found is for me to re-create the assignemnts and re-package and re-send, but this means the editor loses all their work up to that point. Any ideas?ThanksSimon

Wir haben folgendes Problem: Ich habe in Adobe InDesign Vers. 2022 ein Dokument anlegt. Auf der Musterseite habe ich Hilfslinien und unten eine Textbox mit einer Seitenzahl und einer Fussnote reingestellt.Nach dem Öffnen des Dokuments in Adobe InCopy Vers. 2022 musste ich feststellen, dass die Seitenzahl und die Fussnote sich in die Seitenmitte verschoben hatte. Ein Bug?

Hi there. Does anyone know of a screen reader (eg JAWS or NVDA) that works successfully with InCopy. One of our editorial team has a visual impairment that means they need to listen to copy as much as possible without having to look at it. Thanks for any advice.

Hello! Has anyone had success importing endnotes (saved from Endnote - it seems to become a Bibliography in Word) to InDesign in such a way that they maintain their links from superscript to the reference in the Biblio? I used InCopy to import from Word, and there appear to be links on the superscript, but they don't translate to links in a PDF (which is the final result we need). Any ideas appreciated!

Hello,I'm currently working with and InDesign-InCopy workflow for book editing and I'm in charge of designers, translators, editors and more. Is there a way to lock the styles like paragraph, character and tables in InDesign so the translators and editors see everything but can't change the styles in the document?I saw that maybe I could write a script for this specific need I have, but it might be too complicated. Any suggestions?Thanks, Val.

I recently purchased photoshop and updated my existing version of incopy.Neither of these programs are now visibile in my launchpad - I can only access them through the creative cloud app. How do I access it from my mac (Monterey 12.6) without first having to open the creative cloud? 

Hi,  So, I am working with a team to create some products. We have NOT set up the workflow to include a cloud - as many of the team do not have adequate access to the internet. So, one user will check in all content, forward for InCopy and then send to the next use. In this instance it has only ever been one user editing the file. Sometimes, a user has checked in all their work before exiting the program, the next time they work on the file, they do not open the file from InCopy. It will give this message "One or more stories in this assignment are checked out to other users. The assignment can't be packaged until the stories are checked in."  Is there ANY way to override this message and check in all content? If a user cannot solve this issue - they have to start from scratch. 

Hi,ich benötige Unterstützung. Ich habe mein Buch in Adobe InDesign (deutsche Sprache) erstellt. Nun soll dieses in Englisch von einer Person (habe ich bereits ausfindig gemacht) übersetzt werden. In diesem Zuge bin ich auf Adobe InCopy gestoßen. Die Übersetzerin soll nämlich nur die Textabschnitte bearbeiten können. Wer kann mich hierbei unterstützen und mir die einzelnen Schritte mitteilen, damit mit der Übersetzung begonnen werden kann? Wie transferiere ich InDesign zu InCopy. Welche Punkte müssen berücksichtigt werden (einchecken, auschecken, ...). Hier gibt es für mich im Moment viele Unklarheiten. Ich benötige eine einfache Anleitung dazu. Eventuell gibt es auch andere Möglichkeiten der Übersetzung, dafür bin ich auch offen. Es soll einfach für die Übersetzerin sein, das ist das Hauptziel.Viele Grüße,Dominik

Hi all,First problem I've ever had with InCopy. We are on an email-based workflow (by necessity not by choice). Designer sends editor an .icap file and the editor returns an .idap file. This has always worked but on one particular file we got the error message: The package file contains an assignment that doesn't exist in "FileName.indd." Your package file may be out of date or associated with a different document. How do you want to continue?- Browse to locate the correct document OR- Save the contents of the package to disk We are certain that there is only one InDesign document. We compared assignment lists as they appear in InCopy and InDesign and they appear to be identical. In the InCopy package's folder the list of .icml files is identical to InCopy's assignment window except for one case where the file name varies slightly from the assignment name, but this does not create any link errors and the file name is correct in the XMP file info. I would be okay wit

Olá!Estou usando o incopy para atualização de livros, está fluindo super bem, faz dois anos, notei que o controle de alteração do incopy/indesign não sinaliza os textos das notas de rodapé. Alguém teria uma solução?----------------//Incopy has no change control on footnotesHi!I'm using incopy to update books, it's flowing super well, two years ago, I noticed that the incopy/indesign change control doesn't flag the footnote texts. Would anyone have a solution?

If text is running over part of an image in InDesign in my colleague's file - either around object, or a box ignoring text wrap - the .icap file she sends me is not allowing this to happen, resulting in best-case scenario where the layout view I see isn't identical, and worst case - I can't see the text at all in design view, and must edit in story - and obviously then can't work out whether the copy fits or not. I've Googled a few times, trashed preferences, even tried creating brand new files to test with, and I am seeing the same issue each time. Both of us are running completely up to date. This has been an issue for a long time (I've just dealt with the frustration, then forgotten to post in here to find a fix each consecutive month I am dealing with the files!).(The blurred area is text - unedited so I've blurred it - and the gap is between pages, but it's just an example of how entire boxes of text become unviewable each time)

My editor and art director are running into issues with collaborating through indesign and incopy via dropbox. This hasn't been an issue before and we are trying to figure out what the source of the problem is. Our art director will save her indesign file to dropbox which is then opened by our editor to incopy but is receiving this error currently:  Cannot open "InCopyTest_1.4.23.indd" We need to be able to work off dropbox as our server in order to manage live edits. Any idea what the issue could be?

Hi there, I am in a workflow as designer InDesign with two  editors using InCopy. Our ICMA and ICML files are in DropBox. The InDesign docs and images are local on my external hard disk. One editor is working from a PC, the rest from a Mac.One file seemed to be corrupt as on 2 pages tekst an imaages were partly lost. After adding the tekst and images, the same problem occurred after closing and opening. So I decided to make a fresh start and throw out the 2 dubious pages and add 2 clean pages with again the text and images and assigned the text blocks of these pages. Now for all of us the document is and signed out and we cannot access the asignments (except for the newly added 2 pages. The messagge is that the ISMA file is in use and that  one of the editiors had signed out all the text boxes, but he hasn't! (he gets the same message) How can we get everything synchronized and signed in again? Thanks! Sam

Hi there, I work in Dropbox as on of two editors and with one designer. Everything went fine until 27 December. Since then, all my ICML files are still changed when I check out, but these are no longer synchronized with the ICMA-files. This went automatically before 28 December. The others don't see my changes now (oddly, if I open the ICMA files, I do). The other editor has no issues. How can we get everything synchronized again? Thanks!