Efficient assignment-based workflow

Efficient assignment-based workflow

Accelerate production by enabling a designer and multiple writers and editors to simultaneously edit the content of a single Adobe InDesign® document. Exchange articles with ease and flexibility using assignments that contain only the InDesign CS3 elements you need, from a specific area of a page to an entire document.

Precise layout view with 100% accurate line breaks

Edit copy in the view most suited to your current task, such as pure text editing or copyfitting. Galley View displays 100% accurate line breaks, Story View allows faster word processing, and Layout View gives an accurate view of the InDesign layout so you can make text edits in relation to the design. Refresh the Layout View whenever your designer sends you design changes for reference as you edit.

Detailed copyfitting feedback

Detailed copyfitting feedback

View copyfit information as you work in Galley, Layout, and Story View. Constant visual feedback informs you of space remaining — or how far you’ve gone over — plus story depth and line, word, and character counts.

Advanced editorial toolset

Work more productively with powerful editorial tools, including styles that let you rapidly implement global formatting changes to maintain typographical consistency, enhanced Find/Change functionality that lets you quickly change text and text formatting in documents of any length, and more.

Intelligent editorial collaboration

Take advantage of the ability to easily track text changes, and then quickly hide, show, navigate, and accept or reject changes. And use handy inline notes to store alternate text, writer-editor communications, and other annotations in notes tied to specific positions in a story.

Customizable editorial workspace

Customizable editorial workspace

Make more efficient use of your screen space by viewing only the tools you need for a specific task or monitor configuration. Save any combination of panel arrangements and menu configurations as custom workspaces, and smoothly switch between workspaces depending on your task.

Professional typography

Apply a wide range of precise typographic adjustments such as leading, letter spacing, and paragraph spacing; use OpenType® fonts and Unicode character encoding; and easily insert glyphs by using the Glyphs panel.

Multiple text format support

Easily open and import content in a wide variety of formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, ASCII, and XML.

Flexible table creation including table and cell styles

Flexible table creation

Quickly create tables from scratch, import styled Word and Excel tables directly, or turn tab-delimited text files into tables, and then apply formatting in InCopy CS3. Also edit complex tables built in InDesign CS3 more efficiently.

Robust XML support

Open, create, modify, and contribute structured XML text and tables to your publishing workflow.