User Guide

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ADOBE INCOPY CS2

User Guide

See also

“File type overview” on page 100

Working with frames, grids, rulers, and guides

About frames in linked files

As in Adobe InDesign, all InCopy text and graphics appear inside frames. You can see frames in an open InCopy

document when you choose Layout view. For linked documents, InDesign controls the frame placement and design

for a publication. You can see the frame structure of the InDesign document in InCopy Layout view.

Modifying frames

You (or someone on your team) must make any changes to frames from within the InDesign document, unless the

frames are for inline graphics. You can move, scale, rotate, or sheer inline graphics frames, but not other frames. For

more information, see your workflow documentation.

Threading text

A long story can flow from one frame to other frames that are connected in sequence, or threaded. Athreadedstory

begins on a particular column of a page and can continue on any other columns and pages of the publication. The

InDesign user always sets up the threading sequence for an InCopy story.

When you add text to a threaded story, the story flows through each successive frame until all of the assigned frames

are full.

1 Light

1 2

Water

Topsoil

Light n atural

or electric

Water

Topsoil

Flow of threaded text: Original text in threaded frames (top); after you add text to first frame, text reflows to second frame (bottom)

If the text doesn’t fit in its allotted frame space, the hidden part of the story is called overset text.