Adobe InCopy

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Adobe InCopy
Developer(s) Adobe Systems
Initial releaseOctober 1999 (1999-10)
Stable release
17.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / May 2022
Operating system
Available in24 languages
List of languages
English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Type Word processor
License Trialware, Proprietary, term
Website www.adobe.com/products/incopy/

Adobe InCopy is a professional word processor made by Adobe Inc. that integrates with Adobe InDesign. InCopy is used for general word processing, in contrast to InDesign, which is used to publish printed material, including newspapers and magazines. The software enables editors to write, edit, and design documents. The software includes standard word processing features such as spell check, track changes, and word count, and has various viewing modes that allow editors to visually inspect design elements — just as it looks to the designer working in Adobe InDesign. [2]

Contents

Version 3.0 of InCopy was included in the first Adobe Creative Suite in 2003, [3] and later versions were included in versions of the Creative Suite up until version CS6. [4] Since 2013 newer versions have been made available only through Adobe Creative Cloud.

Viewing modes

InCopy has three viewing modes: Story mode, galley mode and layout mode. The story mode is for reading and editing text in a screen-wide view without page formatting. The galley mode displays text without page formatting but with line numbers and the same line breaks seen in the layout mode. Both galley and story views show the names of the style sheets applied to the text but do not display the actual formatting. The layout mode shows the true page design layout along with images and overset text. [5]

Although InCopy can be used as a word processor (with full printing and exporting functions), it is primarily used to integrate with Adobe InDesign. Once integrated, writers, editors and designers can simultaneously work on the same page; the designer creates the page layout with InDesign, while editors simultaneously edit different stories with InCopy, via the Adobe LiveEdit rights management system. Publishers often use a publishing system including workflow- and rights-management to the design and editing capabilities of the publishing system software.

Internationalization and localization

A Middle Eastern edition of InCopy is specifically developed for Arabic and Hebrew languages. It features:

History

VersionRelease dataNote
1.0October 1999
2.02002first release with Mac OS X support
CS (3.0)Late 2003
CS2 (4.0)May 2005
CS3 (5.0)June 2007
CS4 (6.0)November 2008
CS5 (7.0)May 2010
CS6 (8.0)April 2012
CC (9.0)June 2013
CC 2014 (10.0)June 2014
CC 2015 (11.0)
CC 2017 (12.0)
CC 2018 (13.0)October 2017
CC 2019 (14.0)

See also

References

  1. "InCopy May 2022 (17.3) release notes". May 25, 2022. Archived from the original on June 22, 2022.
  2. "Meeting Notes Archive". Chicago InDesign User Group. May 4, 2004. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  3. Cow News Droid (October 28, 2003). "Adobe InCopy CS Now Shipping" . Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  4. "Downloads: InCopy for Windows". Adobe Systems . Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  5. "Adobe InCopy CS" (PDF). Adobe Systems. August 2003. Retrieved September 10, 2014.