Yes, I'll be checking out from InCopy indefinitely, thanks. If only I knew how...
December 15, 2010 2:24 PM Subscribe
InDesign & InCopy hell, please help me.
I accidentally created an InCopy thing in my Indesign file. Now Indesign won't let me edit text frames - or rather, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, and it keeps mentioning "checking in" and "checking out". I don't have InCopy, and I don't use it, and I don't want to use it more to the point. I also can't get a grip of how this whole "workflow" thing is supposed to work.
How do I turn this bloody feature off? Can anyone help me? I spent hours working on my pretty graphs, I would hate to start all over again. Eternally grateful and all that.
I accidentally created an InCopy thing in my Indesign file. Now Indesign won't let me edit text frames - or rather, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, and it keeps mentioning "checking in" and "checking out". I don't have InCopy, and I don't use it, and I don't want to use it more to the point. I also can't get a grip of how this whole "workflow" thing is supposed to work.
How do I turn this bloody feature off? Can anyone help me? I spent hours working on my pretty graphs, I would hate to start all over again. Eternally grateful and all that.
Best answer: You can also delete the assignments themselves - if you go to the 'Assignments' window in InDesign, then select all of the items you see there and delete them, your text frames will be totally free.
InCopy can be really useful if you have a situation where multiple people need to get in there and fiddle with the text while a designer is laying it out.
posted by kerning at 5:23 PM on December 15, 2010
InCopy can be really useful if you have a situation where multiple people need to get in there and fiddle with the text while a designer is laying it out.
posted by kerning at 5:23 PM on December 15, 2010
Response by poster: @kerning: that worked, thanks
@nomadicink: I couldn't find the InCopy pallette (!), of course. But thanks for the moral support :)
posted by NekulturnY at 9:29 AM on December 16, 2010
@nomadicink: I couldn't find the InCopy pallette (!), of course. But thanks for the moral support :)
posted by NekulturnY at 9:29 AM on December 16, 2010
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You should have palette for InCopy. Open it. There will be one or more "stories' or whatever the hell InCopy calls them in there. Select one by clicking on it once, then go to the submenu of the palette. There should be an option to "Unlink from source" or something like that, which should free up your text frames.
To avoid this in the future, remove the InCopy plugins from Indesign's plugin folder.
posted by nomadicink at 3:23 PM on December 15, 2010