User Guide

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ADOBE INCOPY CS2
User Guide
Importing graphics
Importing graphics
InCopy allows you to import graphics into existing frames. This is especially useful in an editorial workflow (where
content is created before the layout), because you can choose the graphics for your articles as you write.
Once you import a graphic, you can transform (move, scale, rotate, shear) it inside the frame, fit the graphic to the
frame, and control the graphic’s appearance. You can also tag a selected frame for future XML use by selecting
commands from the context menu.
When you import graphics into InCopy, keep the following in mind:
• You must check out a frame before you can import a graphic into it.
• You can import graphics into existing frames only. Only InDesign users can create graphics frames.
• When InDesign users create a new frame, they specify whether it is a text, graphics, or unassigned frame. InCopy
users cannot change this frame type within InCopy. Therefore, if you try to import a graphic into a text frame, for
example, it appears as a large inline graphic.
• You can select and modify the graphics but not the frames in InCopy, unless they are nested or inline frames. Only
InDesign users can modify graphics frames.
• You can place, paste, or drag graphics into an anchored, floating, or inline graphics frame. You can import a
graphic into a text frame only if that frame has an active insertion point or is an inline graphics frame.
• If you import a graphic into a nested frame, the graphic is imported into the deepest-level frame under the pointer.
Nested frames that contain graphics, unlike top-level frames, can be selected with the Position tool. (See “About
the Position tool” on page 116.)
• If an InDesign user converts a graphic in exported InCopy content to an interactive button, the button in InCopy
will have the same properties as a graphics frame. Buttons perform an action when the document is exported to
Adobe PDF.
• If an effect, such as transparency, drop shadow, or feathering, is applied to a frame in InDesign, it will be visible in
an assignment file or InDesign (.indd) file open in InCopy. It will not be visible in a linked (.incx) file open in
InCopy.
InCopy supports the same wide range of graphics file formats as InDesign, including graphics created using Illus-
trator 8.0 and later, bitmap formats such as PDF, PSD, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, and BMP, and vector formats such as EPS.
Other supported formats include DCS, PICT, WMF, EMF, PCX, PNG, and Scitex CT (.SCT).
To place a graphic in a frame
1 Make sure the graphics frame is checked out to you. The Editing icon appears in the upper left corner of the
frame.
2 Choose File > Place and select a graphics file.
3 If you want to set format-specific import options, do one of the following:
• Select Show Import Options to see format-specific settings, and then click Open.
• Hold down Shift as you click Open or Shift-double-click a file name.
Note: When you place a graphic created in lllustrator 9.0 or later by using the Show Import Options dialog box, the
options are identical to those for PDF files. When you place an Illustrator 8.x graphic, the options are identical to those
for EPS files