Rick Johnson, a full-time illustrator and part-time AppleScript guru at Kalmbach Publishing in Wisconsin, has written a couple of in-house AppleScripts (links at the end) for the company’s designers that work around this problem. So at the start of every project, designers have to manually export the frames (Export Selection to InCopy) they do want, one spread at a time. And editors sometimes inadvertently edit master page text frames in InCopy. becomes an entry in the Assignments palette. Which means that every folio, every header, every footer, etc. But InDesign’s “Export All Stories to InCopy” (seems like a logical choice, no?) exports every text frame on the master pages as well as the document pages to InCopy format.
The problem: InCopy users can’t edit any text in an InDesign layout until the designer has explicitly selected the text frames the editors need to work on and exported them to InCopy format.
