The announcement of Adobe InCopy exemplifies the company's plans to extend its professional publishing platform, based on Adobe InDesign. Adobe is committed to the professional publishing market. With InCopy, a user can develop a more efficient design and editorial process that produces extraordinary results. This leaves more time for writing copy and the editing process. InCopy has a familiar, word-processing interface that allows writers and editors to begin work immediately within an application that is most effective for the task at hand.
Writers can choose to work within a layout view or a galley view of their publication.
The layout view displays text exactly as it will appear in print, while the galley view displays edits and editorial notes with the editor's name attached. Additionally, InCopy provides an easy way for editors to track hyphenation and justification changes, as well as the movement of paragraphs. Because InCopy shares the same text composition engine as InDesign, and is based on the same hyphenation and justification rules, it can provide virtually error-free copy fitting. Writers and editors can rely on fitting copy just once in a layout without the need for any manual adjustments. InCopy creates outstanding text by employing the unparalleled precision and control of the typographical features of InDesign including, the multi-line composer, optical kerning and margin alignment capabilities.