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Topic: InCopy frustrations - Q for editors
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| WritingEd | Posted – 6/23/2007 10:24:20 PM | show profile As anyone who uses InCopy knows, access to the text depends upon the art team being diligent in granting editors access to each text element within a layout. Editors: How do you handle it when working with an art team that consistently "forgets" to grant access to various stories? The magazine where I work switched from Quark to InDesign/InCopy about a year ago, and I find it really frustrating that our designers tend to not be careful about ensuring I have access to everything I need to work on layouts. For instance, I'll find a typo in a photo credit or a byline, or I'll go to write a photo caption, and find I don't have access to that element. The designers act like it's no big deal -- "Just let us know," they say, "and we'll give you access" -- but I find it's a huge inefficiency to have to pick up the phone, make the request, wait for the designer to open the document, find and create the story, wait for it to be named and linked, and then update the layout design so that I can begin working again. Especially when there's a forgotten element in nearly every single layout. |
| Upward Bound | Posted – 6/24/2007 9:57:17 AM | show profile Have you talked with the managing editor about this? Try to frame it as a suggestion for increasing efficiency. You don't want to come across as bitching about your coworkers, and you certainly don't want to look like you're whining to a superior because you're losing a petty power game. (Not that you do sound like that.) |
