User Guide

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ADOBE INCOPY CS2
User Guide
To use the vertical depth ruler
When typing text, it is sometimes useful to know the physical depth of a story as it will appear in Layout view, in
addition to the number of lines. The vertical depth ruler draws a ruler along the left edge of the Galley and Story
views. Each tick mark in the ruler aligns to the bottom of a line of text. A value is displayed every five tick marks to
show the total vertical depth of the text to that point. The depth dynamically updates when layout composition for
the portion of the document is complete.
The depth measurement uses the vertical units setting in the Units & Increments Preferences panel.
Note: To aid in copyfitting, the depth of overset text is also calculated and displayed.
1 Click the Galley or Story tab at the top of the editing area.
2 Do either of the following:
• To show or hide only the depth ruler, choose View > Show/Hide Depth Ruler.
• To show or hide only the information column, choose View > Show/Hide Info Column.
3 To hide the ruler, Hide Depth Ruler or Hide Info Column from the View menu.
To switch to the Story view
Use Story view to create content without worrying about the accuracy of line endings or line numbers.
❖ Do one of the following:
• Click the Story tab at the top of the editing area.
• Choose View > Story View.
To set Story view preferences
Use the Galley & Story Display section of the Preferences dialog box to customize the display of the Story view.
1 Choose InCopy > Preferences > Galley & Story Display (Mac OS).
2 Specify the options you want.
3 Click OK.
See also
“To set Galley view display preferences” on page 21
About Layout view
In Layout view, you see text and other elements exactly as they are formatted and positioned in an InDesign
document. Stories are laid out in frames, just as they appear in InDesign.
If you are working with a linked story—a managed story within an open InDesign document or Assignment file—
you cannot modify the story layout with InCopy. You can work only with the text and text attributes.
If you are working with a stand-alone InCopy document—an individual InCopy document that is not within an open
InDesign document or Assignment file—you can work with the text and text attributes, and change the page size
using the Document Setup command.