Smart Connection Pro CS3

Smart Connection Pro is a file-based workflow solution, based on Adobe InDesign and InCopy. It allows you to efficiently work together on a publication, while strictly separating design and editorial tasks. The result is effective collaboration, and full control over your publication process.

Without a professional workflow, your publication will suffer from a variety of common errors – different users editing the same story, deleting a story from the design while somebody is working on it, or placement of stories in the wrong layout.

Smart Connection Pro offers an inexpensive, flexible and scalable workflow solution that enhances your productivity and prevents those common mistakes.

It uses concepts like publication, issue and section, and its workflow is basket-based, status-based or user-based, allowing you to tailor it to meet your preferred way of working.

Now a user can select a publication and issue, and will directly see all relevant sections, baskets and files to work with. He does not need to know where the files are on the server, and he is always using the right version. Smart Connection Pro takes care of the rest - versioning of stories and revision tracking, controlled text access for designers, write-to-fit for editors, and much more. It’s all there at your fingertips in a convenient panel inside InDesign and InCopy.

The Smart Connection panels provide information about the status of the publication. A thumbnail view is available for easy recognition, and instant messaging is included for efficient communication with other people within the organization.

Smart Connection Pro CS3 is a useful plugin that extends the functionality of powerful tools like Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy.