Operation Manual

Frames, grids, rulers, and guides

To the top

About frames in InCopy files

Change measurement units and rulers

Change the zero point

Use grids

View ruler guides

Use layers

About frames in InCopy files

As in Adobe InDesign, all InCopy text and graphics appear inside frames. For linked documents, InDesign controls the frame placement and

design for a publication. You can see the frame structure of the InDesign document in InCopy Layout view.

Modifying frames

You (or someone on your team) must make any changes to frames from within the InDesign document, unless the frames are for inline graphics.

You can move, scale, rotate, or shear inline graphics frames, but not other frames. For more information, see your workflow documentation.

Threading text

A long story can flow from one frame to other frames that are connected in sequence, or threaded. A threaded story begins on a particular column

of a page and can continue on any other columns and pages of the publication. The InDesign user always sets up the threading sequence for an

InCopy story.

When you add text to a threaded story, the story flows through each successive frame until all of the assigned frames are full.

Flow of threaded text: Original text in threaded frames (top); after you add text to first frame, text reflows to second frame (bottom)

If the text doesn’t fit in its allotted frame space, the hidden part of the story is called overset text.

Change measurement units and rulers

InCopy includes a vertical depth ruler for copyfitting text in Galley and Story views, as well as horizontal and vertical rulers in Layout view for

measuring layouts. By default, rulers begin measuring from the upper-left corner of a page or spread. You can change this by moving the zero

point.

You can work with several standard measurement units, change these settings at any time, and temporarily override the current measurement

units as you enter a value. Changing the measurement units doesn’t move guides, grids, and objects, so when ruler tick marks change, they might

not line up with objects aligned to the old tick marks.