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Adobe InCopy Changelog

What's new in Adobe InCopy CC 2024 Build 19.0

Oct 11, 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 CC 2023 Build 18.0.0.312 (Oct 19, 2022)

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

New in Adobe InCopy CC 17.0.0.96 (Oct 28, 2021)

  • Modified nomenclature to promote diversity and inclusion:
  • We have replaced non-inclusive terminology to support core Adobe values of diversity and inclusion. From InCopy 2022 (version 17.0) onwards, you'll reference Parent pages (called Master pages earlier) for applying page layouts, design, and style.
  • inclusive
  • Improved resolution with scalable user interface:
  • Scale the size of InCopy UI to suit your display needs and for comfortable viewing on high-resolution monitors.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2020 Build 16.0.0.77 (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 2018 Build 13.1 (Mar 13, 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.
  • 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 2018 Build 13.0 (Oct 20, 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 2017.0 Build 12.0.0.81 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • FOOTNOTES THAT SPAN COLUMNS:
  • Now, while working with a multi-column text frame, you have the option to insert a footnote that spans across multiple columns. Select the Span Footnotes Across Columns option in the Document Footnote Options to enable this feature. Based on the selection, this option makes all the footnotes in the document either span across the columns or revert to the original behavior
  • The option to span footnotes across columns is enabled by default for a new document created in InCopy CC 2017. However, the option is disabled by default for an existing document created in an earlier version
  • OPENTYPE ENHANCEMENTS:
  • With this release of InCopy, OpenType properties are now more discoverable. When selecting text or a text frame, you can click a badge that contextually displays the OpenType properties applicable to the text selected. Additionally, you can now preview how a particular OpenType property looks. If mixed fonts are present in the selection, then OpenType properties for all the fonts is displayed.
  • In-context menu for text frame selection:
  • Apply OpenType properties to more than just one character. Now, when you select a text frame or text in a text frame, InCopy identifies the applicable OpenType properties for the selected text and provides an option to apply them.
  • In-context support for Ordinals and Ligatures:
  • The support for in-context menu, which was earlier available for Alternates and Fractions, is now extended to Ordinals and Ligatures (discretionary/standard). So now, when you select 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on, InCopy automatically suggests applying the Ordinal property to it. The ordinals are restricted to the English ordinals as of now.
  • Also, if you select ‘st’ from the word Start and a discretionary ligature exists for the characters, InCopy suggests that you apply that property. The same is applicable for standard ligatures.
  • Stylistic sets:
  • OpenType fonts usually have some Stylistic sets in them. InCopy display these stylistic sets as Set 1, Set 2, and so on. It is hard to figure out from the name what kind of stylistic set this may be. With this feature, the name of the stylistic set provided by the Font Developer is leveraged and shown at various places in InCopy wherever they are referenced.
  • HYPERLINKS PANEL PERFORMANCE:
  • In previous versions of InCopy, if your document included many hyperlinks connected to the hyperlinks panel, it used to load slowly. With this release, the Hyperlinks panel loads much more quickly and gives much improved performance over previous versions.

New in Adobe InCopy CC 2015.0 Build 11.0.0.72 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • USABILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY:
  • Enhanced layers:
  • The Layers panel in InCopy gives you more control over your documents. You can hide or lock individual page items in a layer
  • Save performance improvements:
  • Close documents and save changes to multiple stories faster than before due to multithreading implementation. Use the Background Tasks panel (Window > Utilities > Background Tasks) to view the progress of ongoing processes.
  • Tool Hints panel:
  • The Tool Hints panel lists all the hidden modifier key behaviors available for the currently selected tool.
  • Community Help:
  • Adobe Community Help offers access to complete Adobe product documentation as well as to community-created learning content and other learning content on Adobe.com. Adobe Community Help includes an AIR-based viewer that displays the latest online Help or defaults to a local version of Help when a web connection is unavailable.
  • Community Help also includes expert-moderated comments and user ratings on Adobe documentation, knowledgebase articles, tutorials, and other content.
  • Edit Original for multiple selected items:
  • If you select multiple placed images on your page or in the Links panel, you can choose the Edit Original command to open the images in their respective editing applications.
  • MISCELLANEOUS ENHANCEMENTS:
  • Zoom from dialog boxes
  • You can now use the keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out of your document when you have a modal dialog box open in Layout view. Press Ctrl+- or Ctrl+= (Windows) or Command+- or Command +=.
  • Sticky Preview check boxes
  • InCopy now remembers whether the Preview checkbox is selected in a dialog box after you exit and restart.
  • Collate option
  • The Print dialog box includes a Collate option that helps you avoid manually sorting the printout.
  • New default font
  • The default font is changed from Times (Mac) and Times New Roman (Windows) to the crossplatform OpenType version of Minion Pro Regular.
  • Collapse multiple links to same source
  • In InCopy CS5, links to images placed multiple times in a document are collapsed into a single row in the Links panel. You can now turn off this collapsing behavior with a new option in the Panel Options dialog box.
  • Menu commands changed or moved
  • The following menu commands have new locations.
  • TEXT CHANGES:
  • New Eyedropper tool:
  • Use the Eyedropper tool to copy text formatting from one text selection and apply that formatting to different text. Customize which attributes to apply in the Eyedropper Tool Options dialog box.
  • Paragraphs that span columns:
  • In InCopy CS5, you can make a paragraph span multiple columns. You can also split a paragraph into multiple columns within the same text frame.
  • Caption variables:
  • In InDesign CS5, you can generate captions based on image metadata using a number of methods. Live captions use a new text variable called Metadata Caption. You can create or edit caption text variables for use in InDesign.
  • COLLABORATION:
  • Track change feature enhancements:
  • The Track Changes feature is now available in both InCopy CS5 and InDesign CS5. In InCopy, the Track Changes toolbar includes icons that are more intuitive. The Changes menu includes additional options for accepting and rejecting changes in either the current story or in all stories. You can also accept and reject changes from individual participants.
  • Mini Bridge:
  • Mini Bridge is a subset of Adobe Bridge that is available as a panel within InCopy. See previews of files on your local hard drive or server without launching Adobe Bridge and leaving InCopy. Drag and drop files into editable frames or open files directly in InCopy in fewer steps and in less time.
  • Improved Adobe Bridge integration:
  • A new File Handling preference option lets you generate page thumbnails for more than the first page of InCopy files. The default number of pages to generate thumbnails for is set to 2, but you can change it to 1, 2, 5, 10, or All. You can now see previews of pages in the Preview pane of Bridge. Choosing more thumbnail pages may cause your InCopy document to take longer to save.
  • Document installed fonts:
  • In InDesign CS5, if you choose to include the document fonts when using the Package command, InDesign generates a folder named “Document Fonts.” If you open an InDesign or InCopy file located in the same parent folder that this Document Fonts folder is located in, these fonts are automatically installed for you.
  • Buzzword integration:
  • Buzzword is a web-based text editor that lets users create and store text files on a web server. In InCopy CS5, you can import and export text from Buzzword documents. See Import Buzzword documents and Export content to Buzzword.

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

  • 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 9.0 (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)

  • This update provides key fixes in PDF export, EPUB export, Liquid Layouts, PDF Forms, IDML and others.

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

  • This update provides key fixes in performance when working in high quality display mode. In addition, it addresses errors about missing plug-ins and provides general fixes in PDF export, text, font handling and others. This fix is recommended for all users.
  • Highlights of fixes included in this update are:
  • 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 7.0 (Apr 30, 2010)

  • Eyedropper tool:
  • Pick up the style of one text selection and apply it to another for hassle-free formatting.
  • Track Changes enhancements:
  • Accept or reject changes on a per-user basis for greater flexibility and editorial control.
  • Paragraphs that split columns:
  • Quickly turn any text selection into multiple columns within an existing text frame.
  • All-new Layers panel
  • Hide or lock obscuring layout elements to easily access the text in a multilayered document.
  • Faster saving with multithreading:
  • Take advantage of advanced multithreading technology to close documents and save changes to multiple stories faster.
  • Enhanced Links panel:
  • Manage placed files in your InCopy documents and see metadata including keywords, headline, and description.
  • Paragraphs that span columns:
  • Make single-column text span multiple columns — no dedicated text frame needed.
  • Adobe Mini Bridge:
  • Browse hard-drive files and drag them into assigned frames — all from within InCopy.
  • Acrobat.com Buzzword support:
  • Easily place copy written in Acrobat.com Buzzword into editable InCopy text frames.
  • Document-installed fonts:
  • Avoid the inconvenience of missing fonts. When you open an InCopy story, InCopy CS5 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. The appropriate font licenses are still required for any party opening, editing, or printing the story.