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Topic: Do Copyeditors need to know InDesign and why?
| Author | Message |
| Keith | Posted – 1/23/2008 1:20:53 PM | show profile Is Adobe InDesign a program used by copyeditors or graphic designers or both? And if it is the former (used by copyeditors), then what is the point of Adobe Incopy? I'm very confused! |
| can't say | Posted – 1/23/2008 1:45:46 PM | show profile Copy editors need to know both programs. At some magazines copy editors work only in InCopy. But at others, copy editors need to print out pages in order to circulate the files, either in hard copy or PDFs. For that, InDesign is used. |
| leprechaunsy | Posted – 1/23/2008 2:22:23 PM | show profile Both is correct, for most copy jobs. InCopy is basically the equivalent of word processing software. At many places, that's what writers and editors work in, as well as copy folk, but we also often make changes in InDesign file. Both programs are easy to pick up, by the way. |
| mkelly | Posted – 1/23/2008 8:00:27 PM | show profile Copy editors need to know every program commonly used to edit and handle copy. That is what makes you attractive to editors. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 1/23/2008 10:03:34 PM | show profile Definitely both, for the above reasons. An editor who can move from correcting the copy prior to layout to correcting the nearly-done pages is one with multiple tools in the belt. That flexibility will lend to better problemsolving and allow for promotions. I used to hear from people that the more you know, the more you'll get stuck doing -- but in today's tight marketplace, it seems like the more you know, the more likely that you'll be the one kept in times of layoff. Wish such thinking wasn't necessary. |
