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Adobe InCopy Changelog

What's new in Adobe InCopy 2023 19.0

Oct 10, 2023
  • Harfbuzz as the default shaping engine under World Ready Composer:
  • With Harfbuzz as the default shaping engine under World Ready Composer, you can see improved shaping and correct rendering of glyphs for Indic, and MENA languages.

New in Adobe InCopy 2022 18.0 (Oct 18, 2022)

  • Newly supported graphic formats:
  • Work with new graphic formats in InDesign like HEIC, HEIF, WEBP, and JP2K.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2021 17.0 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • Inclusive terminology:
  • To support core Adobe values of diversity and inclusion, the term Master page has been replaced with Parent page.
  • Scalable user interface:
  • Scale the size of InCopy UI on high-resolution screens to suit your display needs.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2020 16.0 (Oct 20, 2020)

  • Use HSB values without RGB translation:
  • Eliminate the need to translate color values into RGB. Use HSB values in InDesign wherever color values can be set.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2019 15.0 (Nov 5, 2019)

  • SVG import:
  • You can now import SVG files (XML-based vector images) directly in InCopy.
  • More languages:
  • You can now compose text in five new South-East Asian languages.
  • Variable fonts:
  • You can now add variable fonts to your text and change the font attributes.
  • Reverse spell-check:
  • You can now change the direction of your spell-check as Backward or Forward.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2018 14.0 (Oct 16, 2018)

  • Visual font browsing:
  • You can now browse thousands of fonts from hundreds of type foundries from within InCopy, activate them instantly, and use them in your documents. The Fonts panel includes various new options to provide you an enriched experience while working with fonts. You can apply a filter to view only the recently added fonts. You can also select a sample text from the list of predefined text for font preview or select your own text as well. You now also have the option to change the font size while previewing the font.
  • OpenType SVG fonts support:
  • With the support for OpenType SVG fonts in InCopy, you can now provide multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph.
  • Using OpenType SVG emoji fonts, you can include various colorful and graphical characters, such as smileys, flags, street signs, animals, people, food, and landmarks in your documents. You can also create composite glyphs. For example, using the EmojiOne font, you can create the flags of countries or achieve skin tone diversity in your glyphs.
  • Add footnotes in tables:
  • You can now insert footnotes in a table in InCopy. The footnote text appears at the bottom of the text frame.
  • The reference number of a footnote in a table will be in continuation with the reference number of footnotes in that story.
  • Table footnotes are retained while importing Word documents and are exported to formats that support footnotes, such as PDF, EPUB, and HTML.
  • Space between paragraphs of same style:
  • You now have the ability to choose whether the spacing before or after affects the text of the same style. The Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style option in the Styles dialog lets you specify a value for space between paragraphs having the same style. This value is used only if two consecutive paragraphs have the same paragraph style. If the paragraph styles of consecutive paragraphs are different, the value for the Space Before and Space After options are used.
  • Remember previous export format:
  • Now, every document will remember its last export format. If the document is shared with another user or accessed from another machine, it will still retain the format in which that document was last exported.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2018 13.1 (Mar 31, 2018)

  • Endnotes:
  • You can now add endnotes and quickly reference annotations within long documents. You can also control the numbering, formatting, and layout of the endnotes. The numbering auto-adjusts based on the rearrangements of the endnotes in the text.
  • Now, you can also import a word document having endnotes using import option. All the endnotes are imported and added in a new text frame.
  • Merge paragraph borders:
  • You can now create borders that enclose multiple paragraphs using Paragraph Border feature. Select Merge Consecutive Borders And Shading With Same Settings option while creating a paragraph border to merge the paragraph borders of two consecutive paragraphs, if they have same paragraph border and shading properties.
  • Merge paragraph borders and shading
  • Merge paragraph borders and shading

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2018 13.0 (Nov 17, 2017)

  • Modern user experience:
  • InCopy now has a brand new user interface that is flat, modern, and easy on the eyes. The tools and panels have new icons. You can change the interface to one of the four available color options designed for optimal user experience: Dark, Medium Dark, Medium Light,and Light.
  • Paragraph border:
  • Paragraph border enables you to create a border around one or more paragraphs. You can customize corner designs to highlight the paragraph with beautiful effects.
  • Duden Integration (German only):
  • Duden, a trusted German brand for dictionaries, is now integrated natively in InCopy. Now, you can use Duden for more accurate German hyphenation and spell checking.
  • Font-related features:
  • While searching for fonts, you can narrow down the results by filtering fonts by classification, such as Serif, Sans Serif, and Handwritten. You can also search for fonts based on visual similarity. Fonts closest in visual appearance to the font you're searching for appear on top of the search results. A status strip in the font menu displays the information about the applied filters.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2017 12.0.0 (Nov 17, 2016)

  • CLEANER AND BIGGER UI:
  • Users often complain about eye strain after using InCopy for a long time, mostly due to small UI elements in InCopy. With this release, the following areas have been enhanced:
  • Panels have been redesigned in InCopy by increasing the:
  • Size of various controls in panels.
  • Font size.
  • Inter-spacing between controls (both vertical and horizontal).
  • Dialogs have been redesigned by increasing the height of UI controls.
  • Panels and dialogs now look bigger, cleaner, and less cluttered.
  • SORTING SWATCHES:
  • New options are available to sort swatches in the Swatches panel. You can sort swatches by the following:
  • Name
  • Color Values
  • STYLE OVERRIDE HIGHLIGHTER:
  • Use the Style Override Highlighter to identify all the paragraph and/or character style overrides applied in your document. You can enable the Style Override Highlighter widget in the Paragraph Styles or Character Styles panel.
  • WORK WITH GLYPHS MORE EASILY:
  • With the latest OpenType enhancements, apply alternate glyphs for a specific character, and convert text to true fractions, directly from an in-context menu.
  • Plus, search for a glyph in the Glyphs panel by name, by unicode or GID value, or by the specific character.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2015 11.0.1 (Jul 14, 2015)

  • This update provides key fixes for Font Menu, Screen refresh bugs and few launch related issues.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 10.0.0.70 (Jun 19, 2014)

  • Now you can "Find Previous" in addition to the existing "Find Next"
  • InCopy CC will remember your shortcuts and preferences when you update to the latest version
  • Footnotes will now respect text wrap and shape of text frame
  • Color swatch folders will allow you to better manage your color swatches
  • Easily move columns and rows in tables by dragging and dropping
  • Win Hi-DPI and Retina display support

New in Adobe InCopy CC 9.2.2 (Jun 12, 2014)

  • Error "Cannot open the file as it is being used in some other application" when opening the InDesign file in InCopy which is already open in InDesign. (#3739577)
  • Missing focus in InCopy CC after File->New in layout mode. (#3739619)

New in Adobe InCopy CC 9.2.0 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • RESOLVED ISSUES:
  • InCopy only:
  • InCopy crashing during import of story with deleted text. (#3656462)
  • InDesign CC crashes on update to InCopy stories links. (#3649846)
  • Unable to move the cursor passed a collapsed note using the arrow keys. (#3614637)
  • Win: InCopy, a user is not able to type text in the Macro text field. (#3594973)
  • InCopy crashes when opening an assignment file from AEM DAM. (#3587306)
  • InCopy is crashing when the user clicks the Close button (' X '), after canceling the Print. (#3555565)
  • InDesign and InCopy:
  • Text rendering is very slow over a transparent background. (#3592732)
  • Text selection over transparent Object is very sluggish. (#3630743)
  • Drawing and moving of text frames is slow when Info Panel is open on MAC. (#3600210)
  • An object or text frame drawing is slower in CC than CS. (#3596522)
  • Rendering of pasted text frames is very slow in CC as compared to CS6. (#3590911)
  • Object movement is very slow. (#3650794)
  • Panning and scrolling is slower in CC than CS6. (#3596468)
  • Zoom in-Zoom out is slow and sluggish. (#3649023)
  • Save/Save As/Save A Copy gets disabled after performing drag-drop from Finder/Bridge. (#3606041)
  • Application crashes while editing the source of an x-ref in legacy document where destination is in another document. (#3631377)
  • After a user outputs InDesign document as PDF, color profile does not work in PDF on Mac10.6.x/10.8.x/Win7/Win8. (#3586689)
  • Flash Player text input is not responding to command keys. (#3554092)
  • When the Library folder is in focus, clicking the File Save button results in application crash. (#3596016)
  • InDesign crashes when typing long word after a hyphenated line. (#3575859)
  • Fit Frame to Content crashes InDesign. (#3546736)
  • Duplicating spread after duplicating pages is causing InDesign to crash. (#3654918)
  • Application crashes while switching to a different panel after setting GoToURL behavior with empty URL for a button. (#3649906)
  • InDesign CC crashes on update to InCopy stories links. (#3649846)
  • Frame Fitting reference point does not work in InDesign. (#3342299)
  • InDesign Crashes on scrolling the list of fonts when the Fonts Preview is still building. (#3667798)

New in Adobe InCopy CC 9.1.0 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • InCopy only:
  • InCopy crashes on opening an icma file that was made from a document having the Web or Digital Publishing intent. (#3555519)
  • Windows: InCopy crashes on clicking the Print icon on the tool bar. (#3559135)
  • InDesign and InCopy:
  • Mac: InDesign crashes when you click any widget in any CSXS extension panel when another panel is in inline editing mode. (#3554318)
  • Special characters such as ‘?’ or ‘=’ used in hyperlinks are converted to invalid characters and this results in broken links in the exported PDF. (#3554342)
  • In a two columns text frame, if you select text with the mouse in a footnote placed in the left column text, the text disappears. (#3554333)
  • Font search results are not correct when the ‘Show Favorite Fonts Only’ option is selected. (#3554337)
  • If the ‘Show Favorite Fonts Only’ option is selected in the Font menu, InDesign crashes on closing a document with document fonts. (#3554334)
  • InDesign crashes on selecting the text tool if there are specific fonts present in the system. (#3567444)
  • InDesign crashes on selecting a row or column with drop shadow applied on it. (#3577944)
  • Fonts having illegal Postscript characters in their names are crashing the application. (#3585880)
  • There is a no easy way to identify whether the launched version of InDesign CC on Windows is 64-bit or 32-bit. (#3554339)
  • A wrong cursor is displayed when using text drag-and-drop and creating a new frame. (#3574244)
  • A Flash player object is not loading in ScriptUI. (#3590770)
  • Windows: a user is unable to type text in a macro text field in the Text Macros Panel. (#3580114)

New in Adobe InCopy CS6 8.0.2 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • Cursor is not placed in a new Note in InCopy. [3457782]
  • InCopy quits unexpectedly on opening an ICML with mixed ME and Indic texts. [3498585]

New in Adobe InCopy CC 9.0 (Jun 19, 2013)

  • A more connected InCopy:
  • lnCopy CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available. You also get 20GB of cloud storage for backup and sharing. Sharpen your skills and master new tools with a rich library of training videos. With Sync Fonts, you can quickly find the perfect font from the growing Adobe Typekit library, sync it to your system, and start using it right away
  • Parallel collaborative workflow:
  • InCopy integrates tightly with Adobe InDesign to let writers, editors, and designers work simultaneously on a single document without overwriting one another's contributions.
  • Modern UI:
  • InCopy has a sleek new look. Now you control the brightness of the user interface so you can see your layouts more clearly.
  • Font search enhancements:
  • Find the perfect font - fast. Search for any portion of a font name. Mark your favorites to display only those fonts. Quickly find the right font for your layout by using the arrow keys to browse through fonts and see each one applied to your selected text.
  • Adobe Exchange panel:
  • Adobe Exchange is a great source for extensions, plug-ins, templates, and more. Some resources are free; others are available to buy. All have been created to bring extra functionality to InCopy.
  • Flexible page views:
  • Edit in the view most suited to your current task. Galley View displays 100% accurate line breaks. Story View gives you faster word processing. And Layout View lets you edit text in context.
  • Precise copyfitting:
  • View copyfit information as you work. Constant visual feedback shows you how much space remains - or how far you're overset. You can easily track story depth, as well as line, word, and character counts.
  • Sync Fonts:
  • Sync Fonts - part of Creative Cloud - will change the way you work with type. Quickly find the perfect font from the growing library of Adobe Typekit fonts, sync it to your system, and have it immediately available for use.
  • Sharing with Creative Cloud:
  • With the Save to Cloud command, your files (including layers) are accessible on any device. Share them with team members or clients. Changes are tracked, so you can always access previous versions.

New in Adobe InCopy CS6 8.0.1 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Provides key fixes in PDF export, EPUB export, Liquid Layouts, PDF Forms, IDML and others.

New in Adobe InCopy CS6 8.0 (May 8, 2012)

  • Parallel collaborative workflow:
  • Experience tight integration with InDesign CS6 to enable writers, editors, and designers to simultaneously work on a single document without overwriting each other's contributions.
  • Flexible page views:
  • Edit in the view most suited to your current task. Galley View displays 100% accurate line breaks. Story View enables faster word processing. And Layout View lets you edit text in relation to design.
  • Precise copyfitting:
  • View copyfit information as you work. Constant visual feedback informs you of space remaining — or how far you're overset — as well as story depth and line, word, and character counts.
  • Powerful tools for editorial productivity:
  • Use the Eyedropper tool for quick text styling, the Links panel for easy management of placed image and text files, and paragraph and character styles for typographical consistency.
  • Enhanced editorial collaboration:
  • Track text changes across your entire document, including tables. Hide, show, and navigate changes, and accept or reject them en masse or per user. Store annotations
in notes tied to specific positions in a story or table cells.
  • Flexible workspace:
  • Work productively with easy access to key controls and tools. Use the Adobe Mini Bridge panel to browse and open files without leaving InCopy. And create custom workspaces that can be used for specific editorial tasks.
  • 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 using the Glyphs panel.
  • Support for long documents:
  • Minimize manual updates and inaccuracies. Quickly produce multiple versions of a document from a single source file with support for conditional text, and create cross-references that update as content changes or moves within an InDesign document.
  • Print and digital publishing:
  • Develop and deliver content for both print and digital documents. Experience support for digital document features in InDesign CS5.5, insert hyperlinks directly into your InCopy file, and export files to Adobe PDF or XML.
  • Paragraphs that split columns:
  • Quickly turn any text selection into multiple columns within an existing text frame.

  • Paragraphs that span columns:
  • Cut production time with a simple click that makes single-column text span multiple columns. Quickly create a column-spanning headline or subhead in your existing text frame — no need to ask the designer to create a dedicated frame.
 
  • Layers panel:
  • Hide or lock obscuring layout elements to easily access the text in a multilayered document.
 
  • Links panel:
  • Manage placed files in your InCopy documents and see metadata including keywords, headline, and description.

  • Document-installed fonts:
  • Avoid the inconvenience of missing fonts. When you open an InCopy story, InCopy CS5.5 automatically looks for an associated Document fonts folder, installs the folder's fonts temporarily for use in the story, and then uninstalls the fonts when you close the story.
  • Hunspell dictionaries:
  • Access more than 100 open source language and hyphenation dictionaries, allowing you to spell-check and compose text in more languages than ever before.
  • Recently used fonts:
  • Access fonts you use frequently. Recently used fonts appear at the top of the font list.
  • World-ready composer:
  • Use the world-ready composer, an alternate composition engine included in the International English version to enable support for complex script languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Indian languages. 

  • Middle Eastern language support:
  • Buy and update the Middle Eastern version of InCopy directly from Adobe for easier localization of global documents and enhanced functionality, including support for tables in the Story Editor, improved Kashida justification, enhanced diacritic positioning, and more.
  • Complex calculations:
  • Calculate values in panels and dialog boxes using complex calculations (for example, 12.5p / 2x3).
  • Extension manager:
  • Enable or disable individual extensions or entire sets of extensions to meet the needs of your current workflow.

New in Adobe InCopy CS5.5 7.5.3 (May 3, 2012)

  • Degradation in performance when moving objects when display is set to High Quality
  • Unable to navigate document if TOC is on master page
  • Text appears misplaced in certain cases when DataMerge is used to export
  • Certain documents go into infinite loop when adjusting frame size

New in Adobe InCopy CS5.5 7.5.2 (Oct 20, 2011)

  • Error “Error code : 5” experienced by some Mac users when trying to open multiple files
  • InDesign application quits unexpectedly when exporting to epub if document contains composite fonts
  • Data Loss can occur when multiple users edit the same assignment file

New in Adobe InCopy CS5.5 7.5.1 (Jun 17, 2011)

  • Fixed:
  • For a Swedish installation on Mac OS you are unable to insert a line break with Return key on the keyboard. [2884727]
  • Background PDF export fails for certain files if preflight is enabled. [2824068]
  • You are unable to change the location of the XSLT file during relinking of XML [2823961]
  • Excel-specific import prefs are not retained when placing Excel file into a graphic frame [2808639]
  • Problem accessing shared linked file from multiple InCopy instances running on different machines [2851854]
  • CS5 plug-ins can be loaded in CS5.5, leading to code conflicts and instability [2867833]

New in Adobe InCopy CS5 7.0.4 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • This update provides key fixes in the areas of Performance, XML and others.

New in Adobe InCopy CS5 7.0.3 (Oct 18, 2010)

  • Provides key fixes in the areas of Documents, Text, UI, PDF Export, and Architecture.

New in Adobe InCopy CS4 6.0.5 (May 5, 2010)

  • Compatibility update to Adobeﾮ InCopyﾮ CS4 software that provides key fixes in the areas of scripting, importing graphics, text handling, links performance, and others.

New in Adobe InCopy CS4 6.0.4 (Sep 22, 2009)

  • Provides key fixes in the areas of exporting, text handling, spell-check performance, links performance, and others.

New in Adobe InCopy CS4 6.0.3 (Jun 23, 2009)

  • Provides key fixes in the areas of spell-check performance and German hyphenation.

New in Adobe InCopy CS4 6.0.2 (May 5, 2009)

  • Provides key fixes in the areas of Printing, Links performance, Master Pages, Keyboard shortcuts, Export to PDF, Japanese Text Composition and others.

New in Adobe InCopy CS4 6.0.1 (Feb 24, 2009)

  • Provides key fixes in the areas of hyphenation, INCX import and others.

New in Adobe InCopy CS4 6.0 (Dec 12, 2008)

  • New: Conditional text - Quickly deliver multiple versions of a document from a single Adobe InCopy CS4 file. Build student/teacher textbook editions, multilanguage publications, and more by creating conditions and applying them to text to hide content without using layers.
  • New: Table editing in Story and Galley views - Edit your table content directly within the text flow in both Story View and Galley View so you can easily correct overset text without impacting table design.
  • New: Change-tracking in tables - Speed up document reviews with the ability to track changes in tables. View changes to table content directly within your InCopy CS4 document without relying on hard-copy proofs.
  • New: Inline editorial notes in tables - Easily collaborate on table content by storing alternate text, writer-editor communications, and other annotations in notes that are linked to specific table text. Easily add, delete, hide, show, and navigate among notes in tables.
  • New: Support for cross-references - Simplify writing and production of long documents with the ability to create cross-references that update as content changes or moves within an Adobe InDesign® document.
  • New: Support for spread rotation - Easily edit content that appears in nonhorizontal alignment thanks to support for rotation of spreads in 90-degree increments. Spread rotation established in InDesign CS4 is maintained in InCopy CS4.
  • New: Easy hyperlink creation - Create compelling interactive documents with hyperlinks that navigate to external URLs or files, jump to another page, and more. Quickly convert text to hyperlinks, and verify your hyperlinks directly within InCopy CS4.
  • New: Customizable Links panel - Use the newly redesigned, customizable Links panel to find, sort, manage, and organize all placed files in your InCopy CS4 documents and assignments, including linked InCopy files. Click thumbnail images of files for detailed information.
  • New: Single-page spread creation - Create documents that include single-page spreads for greater time savings and more flexibility when composing and editing content.
  • New: Access to Adobe ConnectNow - Share your screen and collaborate in real time with team members — regardless of their locations — using Adobe ConnectNow. Work across platforms and invite up to two online guests at a time by accessing the web-based Adobe ConnectNow service through InCopy.

New in Adobe InCopy 5.0.3 (Jul 2, 2008)

  • Version 5.0.3 provides key fixes in the areas of notes, tagging, character alignment, undo and redo, text and fonts, dictionaries, import/export graphics, and others.