User-interface differences. Adobe InCopy CS6

C HAPTER Introduction Design and architecture 10 that all IDML/INX scripting work in both InDesign and InCopy, so documents can be moved with high fidelity between the applications.

User-interface differences

InDesign and InCopy share most of their panels, but InCopy has a smaller set and several additional toolbars along the top, left, and bottom screen borders. Most InCopy panels also can be docked on these bars, providing a smaller but always-visible view of the panel.

InCopy also has a custom window layout with multiple views, in a main window with three tabs: Galley view, Story view, and Layout view. Layout view is the InDesign window view. Galley and story views are simply the story-editor view, with and without accurate line endings, respectively.

Design and architecture

Story/file relationship

ICML is an IDML-based representation of an InCopy story. It represents the future direction of

InDesign/InCopy and is an especially good choice if you need to edit a file outside of InDesign.

ICML format

Each InCopy file or stream is in XML. An advantage of this is that InCopy files can be parsed easily and opened by any text editor.

INCX format

INCX is an INX-based representation of an InCopy story. This format is not as readable as ICML, but it is still available to support INCX-based workflows.

Document operations

InCopy provides default implementations of document operations (file actions) like New, Save, Save As,

Save A Copy, Open, Close, Revert, and Update Design. All these InCopy file actions are in one plug-in

(InCopyFileActions) in source-code form. Software developers or system integrators are expected to replace this with their own implementations, to customize the interaction for their workflow system.

Using XMP metadata

Users can enter and edit metadata by choosing File > Content File Info. This metadata is saved in the

InCopy file. Software developers and system integrators can create and store their own metadata using the XMP SDK.