Working with managed files, Open shared content, Check out content – Adobe InCopy CC 2015 User Manual
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InCopy and InDesign
Last updated 6/13/2015
When you export content, you see the Available icon
on the text frame (InDesign and InCopy), and in the
Assignments panel (InCopy). The word [Editing] appears in the story bar (InCopy).
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Working with managed files
Open shared content
Only InCopy users can open assignment files (.inca). If an InCopy user opens an InDesign file that contains
assignments, the user will have access to all the managed content, regardless of assignments.
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Do one of the following.
• In InCopy, choose File > Open, select an assignment file (.icma or .inca), and click Open.
• In InDesign or InCopy, choose File > Open, select an InDesign file (.indd) that contains assigned content, and
click Open.
• Open an assignment package. See
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The assignment names and their contents appear in the Assignments panel.
Check out content
When you check out an item, a hidden lock file (.idlk) is placed on the file system. Once the content is checked out, you
have exclusive control over its content, and others are locked out from making changes. You can check out InCopy
content only; you cannot check out InDesign documents with layout information.
If you attempt to close an InDesign document containing one or more InCopy content files that are checked out to you,
an alert message appears, prompting you to check in all content. If you close the document without checking in the
content files, they will still be checked out to you the next time you open the InDesign document. Saving the InDesign
document automatically saves every editable InCopy content file.
Check out content (InDesign)
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Do one of the following:
• In the layout, select the text or graphics frames to edit and choose Edit > InCopy > Check Out.
• In the Assignments panel, select the files and choose Check Out from the panel menu.
When you check out available content in InDesign, you see the Editing icon
on the InDesign frame. In InCopy, the
In Use icon
appears on the InCopy frame and in the Assignments panel if the assignment files are stored on a local
server.