Operation Manual

InCopy documents

Last updated 6/15/2014

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.

You can set up different measurement systems for horizontal and vertical rulers. For example, many newspapers

measure horizontal layouts in picas and vertical text stories in inches. The system you select for the horizontal ruler

governs tabs, margins, indents, and other measurements. Each spread has its own vertical ruler; however, all vertical

rulers use the same settings you specify in the Units & Increments section of the Preferences dialog box.

The default unit of measure for the rulers is picas (a pica equals 12 points). You can change the ruler units and control

where the major tick marks appear on a ruler. For example, if you change the ruler unit for the vertical ruler to 12 points,

a major ruler increment appears every 12 points (if such a display is possible in the current magnification). The tick

mark labels include your customized major tick marks, so when the ruler reads 3 in the same example, it marks the

third instance of the 12-point increment, or 36 points.

Rulers

A Labeled tick marks B Major tick marks C Minor tick marks