![]() ![]() No versionitis, no dupes floating around, no checking v1 vs v2 etc. The whole point of the workflow is to *not* use versions of the ID file. One or more InCopy users can open the INDD file *in InCopy* and check out stories to edit even if the designer has the file open. ![]() I personally don’t use that method nor teach it I use use the INDD file (a “layout workflow”) as the central document and export the stories to the Unassigned Content category in the Assignments panel. ![]() It’s okay to simply rename - not do a Save As or dupe it - an ID file (assuming no one has stories checked out of the layout for editing at the moment), but if you’re using an Assignments workflow, that’ll break the link to the Assignments. Is version control not a thing among large companies or Designer/Writer/Editor workflows? We havent seen a specific unworkable issue crop up in our testing when renaming an InDesign file to a new version but there are some nuances that can be annoying.Īny advice from other designers experiences would be appreciated, as it doesn’t seem like the writers are going to give up all the control of editing books, meaning some of the managers jumping into the InDesign files rather than just the InCopy assignments, any time soon. Now that we are switching to InDesign and InCopy, using the Remote Work Flow method, we have done a tone a research for best practices, but every single instance we have found has shown the designer using the first version of their InDesign document through the entire process. ibooks as a new version (v0.2), and back and forth like that with clients for approval and changes, making a new version each time, and keeping all the old versions for archival purposes. ibooks file (v0.1) to pass it back to the writers who make edits and request changes, they save and export their. We don’t use a shared network drive or server but rather Microsoft OneDrive for backups and sharing files with one another.įor a little background, our current process has been to layout the ebooks in iBooks Author, which is no longer supported and crumbling beneath our feet, then save the. My company has slowly been making the transition to InDesign as our primary layout software for making interactive ebooks and we are at the point where we are trying to figure out the best processes for developing books, allowing writers the ability to edit, and all the version control involved in that. ![]()
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