Remote Publishing Workflows for Designers and Editors

Remote Publishing Workflows for Designers and Editors

3h 30mIntermediate2021-12-23

Authors

Anne-Marie Concepción

Anne-Marie Concepción

Founder of InDesign Secrets, Adobe Certified Instructor

Course details

You know a collaborative workflow can benefit your editing and design teams, but how do you set it up inexpensively and effectively? In this course, instructor Anne-Marie Concepción walks you through a number of free solutions that allow mixed-platform designers, writers, and editors to work concurrently on a single publication, whether they’re on-site or remote. She shows best practices for local network servers, as well as for shared, local folders from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive/SharePoint, and Creative Cloud files. You’ll learn ways users can concurrently edit a file in Photoshop, Illustrator, Word 365, Google Docs, InDesign, and more. She presents detailed steps to set up and use an InDesign and InCopy workflow, so editors can open InDesign layouts in InCopy and write to fit. Anne-Marie also covers in-depth solutions that allow publishing teams to link Microsoft Word and Google Docs to live InDesign layouts, allowing for concurrent design and editorial development.

Skills covered

InCopyGoogle DocsMicrosoft WordWritingInDesignTeams and CollaborationGoogleAdobeProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementMicrosoftOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • The benefits of a collaborative workflow

Collaboration Basics

  • How a collaborative workflow is better
  • Sell the new workflow to staff
  • Set up collaboration with a network
  • Cloud sharing strategies
  • Dropbox for local and shared folders
  • Google Drive for local and shared folders
  • One Drive SharePoint for local and shared folders
  • Creative Cloud files for local synced and shared folders

Single App Collaboration

  • Codesign Adobe Cloud files
  • Coedit Word 365 files
  • Use Google Docs to coedit documents
  • Collaborative PDF commenting with Acrobat
  • Use shared reviews for an InDesign layout
  • Codesign a single InDesign layout
  • Share Creative Cloud Libraries

InCopy and InDesign Collaboration

  • InCopy and InDesign workflow
  • Set up shared project folders
  • Essential InDesign setup steps for designers
  • Essential InCopy setup steps for editors
  • Make the layout editable for InCopy users
  • Open and edit the layout in InCopy
  • Update stories and layouts
  • Use InCopy without an InDesign layout
  • Close out an InCopy InDesign project
  • Tips for using InCopy with InDesign

Microsoft Word and InDesign Collaboration

  • InDesign's own Word file linking is broken
  • Use the WordsFlow plugin
  • Track design and editorial changes
  • Map styles from Word to InDesign
  • Advanced techniques with WordsFlow

Google Docs and InDesign Collaboration

  • Use the DocsFlow plugin for smart updating
  • Track design and editorial changes
  • Map styles from Google Docs to InDesign
  • Advanced techniques with DocsFlow

Conclusion

  • Next steps
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