Customer Reviews

InCopy CS3 + InDesign CS3 Integration

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Let me first start by saying the entire line of Lynda.com videos are first rate. In fact they are so good the training department at our company studies them learn techniques for doing online videos/tutorials for our software.

As for this specific title I was very pleased with the knowledge I walked away with. I watched it twice because I was so interested how this process could work for my company. As an avid reader of Anne-Marie's work on many topics is was much easier to watch and listen to her as she clearly and in detail showed me the ins-and-outs of a process for which she is clearly an expert.

Very well done!!!

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We are a small publisher with 15 years experience. Having graduated through Publish It!, Microsoft Publisher, Pagemaker, and now InDesign, we thought we had a good handle on workflow issues in the publishing business. We had no idea why we should use InCopy or even what it is, even through we are an "InDesign house". To answer that question, I decided we should take a look at Anne-Marie's training with InCopy just to get a handle on why we should consider it.(It's not particularly obvious why one would use it instead of, say, MS Word.)

About 30 minutes into the presentation and we were hooked. Our entire staff is now going through this training program and we've converted our entire publishing workflow over to an InCopy/InDesign routine thanks to Anne-Marie.

Her training is clear, well-paced, organized, frank, and she made the transition from our old MS Word workflow to InCopy both easy and painless.

These types of transitions can be difficult when the staff resists change. In this case, her training made everyone want to leap on it with gusto -- which we did. Essentially, we were up and running in less than a day and have deepened our appreciation of the advantages of this workflow as we've progressed through the full training course.

So, bottom line, I have no hesitation in recommending InCopy with enthusiasm, but I'd strongly suggest Anne-Marie's training as the key that unlocks the door to this publishing paradigm. In fact, I'd actually looked at InCopy CS2 a few years ago and rejected it because, quite honestly, it just didn't make sense. I wish I'd had this training program back then. It would have saved us so much work and stress over the last few years with CS2. I'm glad we, at least, found it now.

If you are using InDesign in a team environment for publishing, do yourself a favor and take a look at InCopy -- and there is no better way to do that than to go through this training program with "Her Geekness." She makes its advantages clear; she makes its implementation easy; she makes its intricacies understandable; she even makes the leaning process fun. How many stars am I allowed to give? Only 5? Not enough, in my opinion.
Brooks Jensen
Editor, LensWork Publishing
www.lenswork.com