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| Adobe InCopy | |
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 Adobe InCopy 2021 running onmacOS Big Sur | |
| Developer | Adobe Systems |
| Initial release | October 1999 (1999-10) |
| Stable release | 21.2[1]  / January 2026 |
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| Available in | 24 languages |
List of languages English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian | |
| Type | Word processor |
| License | Trialware,Proprietary, term |
| Website | www |
Adobe InCopy is a professionalword processor made byAdobe Inc. that integrates withAdobe InDesign. InCopy is used for general word processing, in contrast to InDesign, which is used to publish printed material, including newspapers and magazines. The software enables editors to write, edit, and design documents. The software includes standard word processing features such asspell check, track changes, and word count, and has various viewing modes that allow editors to visually inspect design elements — just as it looks to the designer working inAdobe InDesign.[2]
Version 3.0 of InCopy was included in the firstAdobe Creative Suite in 2003,[3] and later versions were included in versions of the Creative Suite up until version CS6.[4] Since 2013 newer versions have been made available only throughAdobe Creative Cloud.
InCopy has three viewing modes: Story mode, galley mode and layout mode. The story mode is for reading and editing text in a screen-wide view without page formatting. The galley mode displays text without page formatting but with line numbers and the same line breaks seen in the layout mode. Both galley and story views show the names of thestyle sheets applied to the text but do not display the actual formatting. The layout mode shows the true page design layout along with images and overset text.[5]
Although InCopy can be used as a word processor (with full printing and exporting functions), it is primarily used to integrate withAdobe InDesign. Once integrated, writers, editors and designers can simultaneously work on the same page; the designer creates the page layout with InDesign, while editors simultaneously edit different stories with InCopy, via the Adobe LiveEdit rights management system. Publishers often use a publishing system including workflow- and rights-management to the design and editing capabilities of the publishing system software.
A Middle Eastern edition of InCopy is specifically developed for Arabic and Hebrew languages. It features:
| Version | Release data | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | October 1999 | |
| 2.0 | 2002 | first release with Mac OS X support |
| CS (3.0) | Late 2003 | |
| CS2 (4.0) | May 2005 | |
| CS3 (5.0) | June 2007 | |
| CS4 (6.0) | November 2008 | |
| CS5 (7.0) | May 2010 | |
| CS6 (8.0) | April 2012 | |
| CC (9.0) | June 2013 | |
| CC 2014 (10.0) | June 2014 | |
| CC 2015 (11.0) | ||
| CC 2017 (12.0) | ||
| CC 2018 (13.0) | October 2017 | |
| CC 2019 (14.0) |
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