- published: 29 Sep 2010
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Adobe InCopy is a professional word processing software made by Adobe Systems. It is integrated to Adobe InDesign; however, it is sold separately and is not included in any Creative Suite edition; the current version is Adobe InCopy CS6. This desktop publishing software is primarily used to publish newspapers and magazines and is used primarily by editors.
InCopy allows the editor to write, edit, and design (style, font, etc.) the publishable copy. The software includes standard word processing features such as "spell check", "track changes", and "word count", etc., and has preview viewing modes for fitting copy to the text layout, allowing the editor to visually ascertain every design element fits in the publication layout format used.
Commercially, InCopy is a direct competitor to Quark CopyDesk, which was first released in 1991.
The InCopy software has three viewing modes: (i) Story mode, (ii) Galley mode, and (iii) Layout mode. The Story mode is for text reading and editing in a screen-wide, word-processor view without the publication page formatting. The Galley mode view displays the text in a word processing view without page formatting but with line numbers and the same line breaks as in the layout. Both Galley and Story views reveal text that is overset (overflowing its container) in Layout view, and show the names of the style sheets applied to the text; but do not display the actual formatting. The Layout mode shows the true page design layout displaying every format applied to the text and all the images.