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Order InCopy CS2 directly from Adobe, from third-party plug-in developers, or from systems integrators.

What's new with Adobe InCopy CS2

Get the fast facts about the powerful new features in Adobe InCopy CS2.

Adobe InCopy CS2 software is a professional writing and editing program that tightly integrates with Adobe InDesign® CS2 software to deliver a complete solution for collaborative editorial workflow.

• Work smarter in parallel with your team
• Write to fit with 100% accuracy
• Write and edit more productively

Work smarter in parallel with your team

Assignments workflow

Work with assignments that contain only the InDesign CS2 elements you need, from a specific area of a page to an entire document. Track and manage file status, and view design changes as the designer makes them available to you.

Flexible graphics placement

Easily place, scale, crop, and rotate images and artwork, including inline graphics, in frames that designers have assigned to them.

Support for multiple text formats

Easily open and import content from a wide variety of sources because InCopy CS2 supports numerous text file formats including Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, ASCII, and XML.

Inline editorial notes

Use handy inline editorial notes to communicate with colleagues or temporarily store alternative text as you write or edit a story. Easily add, delete, track, hide, show, and navigate among notes using the Notes palette.

Microsoft Word style conflict management

Easily resolve character and paragraph style conflicts when you open and import files from Microsoft Word, RTF, and TXT files. Customize how styles are mapped, preserve local overrides while removing all applied styles, and save all of your settings in a preset for future use.

 

Write to fit with 100% accuracy

Three document views: Layout, Story, and Galley

Switch among three views of a story when writing or editing. Galley View displays 100% accurate line breaks. Story View allows faster word processing. Layout View gives an accurate view of the InDesign layout so you can make text edits in relation to the design.

Control of layer visibility

Control the visibility of layers in Layout View. For example, in a multilingual assignment, hide or show layers with different language versions of the content for review.

Standalone copyfit

Set copyfit rules yourself if the actual layout has yet to be defined. Enter values for such parameters as page size, column width, and character count, and begin to create copy to exactly fit your needs.

Complete copyfit information

View copyfit information as you work in Galley, Layout, and now Story View. Constant visual feedback informs you of space remaining-or how far you've gone over-plus story depth and line, word, and character counts.

Vertical depth ruler

Budget space for stories more accurately using the vertical depth ruler found in the margin of Story View and Galley View, which reports a story's depth using the active unit of measure.

 

Write and edit more productively

Powerful text editing

Achieve clean, final copy fast with efficient text-handling features, including enhanced text import options, drag-and-drop text, paste without formatting, and optional common-error text correction.

Sophisticated typographical controls

Produce polished typography using a rich set of text formatting features such as nested styles, OpenType® support, and more.

Efficient and flexible work environment

Customize your word processing and copyfitting environment to best fit your working style with collapsible palettes, custom keyboard shortcuts, editable toolbars, and display preferences for text editing.

Adobe InCopy CS2 brings a new level of collaboration and productivity to your editorial processes. Through a new assignments-based workflow, InCopy CS2 enables you and other editors to work in parallel with the designer on part of a page, one or more spreads, or a full document. You can also contribute graphics content to an InDesign CS2 layout if a designer assigns graphics frames to you. Plus, new and enhanced editorial features allow for faster workflows and fewer revision cycles to help speed the delivery of publications.

• Assignments workflow
• Flexible graphics placement
• Drag-and-drop text
• Paste without formatting
• Flexible dictionary management

• Automated text macros
• Custom change-tracking display
• Notes mode
• Microsoft Word style conflict management
• Standalone copyfit

Assignments workflow

Work with assignments that contain only the InDesign CS2 elements you need, from a specific area of a page to an entire document. Track and manage file status, and view design changes as the designer makes them available to you.

Flexible graphics placement

Easily place, scale, crop, and rotate images and artwork, including inline graphics, in frames that designers have assigned to them.

Drag-and-drop text

Drag and drop selected text from one area to another as you edit your copy.

Paste without formatting

Automatically strip formatting from copy as you paste it from one location to another in InCopy CS2, or from a source application such as Microsoft Word or e-mail, to your InCopy CS2 file. The pasted text then inherits the formatting applied to its new destination.

Flexible dictionary management

Create and reference multiple dictionaries, including linking to shared dictionaries on a network. Easily import and export word lists from your dictionaries.

Automated text macros

Define text macros to speed entry of frequently used phrases in your copy. Type the macro shortcut-for example, WH for White House-followed by a space, and the shortcut automatically converts to the intended text.

Custom change-tracking display

Customize the way tracked changes are displayed onscreen.

Notes mode

Work with notes in the intuitive way editors prefer, with a single, context-sensitive keystroke to convert selected text into a note, a note into text, or to split notes.

Microsoft Word style conflict management

Easily resolve character and paragraph style conflicts when you open and import files from Microsoft Word, RTF, and TXT files. Customize how styles are mapped, preserve local overrides while removing all applied styles, and save all of your settings in a preset for future use.

Standalone copyfit

Set copyfit rules yourself if the actual layout has yet to be defined. Enter values for such parameters as page size, column width, and character count, and begin to create copy to exactly fit your needs.