User Guide

ADOBE INCOPY CS2

User Guide

To view a previous version in its native application

Note: You can perform this task only if you have access to the full Version Cue feature set, available in Adobe Creative

Suite or in a shared workspace. See “Availability of Version Cue features” on page 29 for more information.

❖ Do one of the following:

• In the Versions dialog box, click the version you want to open and click View.

Note: Theversion number appearsinthe file’s titlebar to remind youthatitisnot thecurrent versionand youshouldn’t

edit the file.The file status is Never Saved, because the previous version is only a snapshot of a previous stage of a file.

• In Bridge, use the Versions And Alternates view, click the Versions View button in the upper-right corner of the

window, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a version, and choose View from the menu.

Version Cue opens the previous version in its own window. You can then edit the previous version and save it as a

new asset or as an alternate. If you edit the previous version, your changes won’t be reflected in the current version

unless you promote the earlier version.

See also

“To view versions in Bridge” on page 61

To promote a version

Note: You can perform this task only if you have access to the full Version Cue feature set, available in Adobe Creative

Suite or in a shared workspace. See “Availability of Version Cue features” on page 29 for more information.

Promotingaprevious versionautomatically savesacopy of that previous versionasthe currentversion.Any changes

made between its creation and promotion don’t appear in the new current version.

1 Do one of the following:

• In the Versions dialog box, select the version you want to promote, and click Promote To Current Version.

• In Bridge, using the Versions and Alternates view, click the Versions View button in the upper right corner of the

window, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a version, and then choose Promote To Current

Versionfromthe menu.Ifyou have aworking copy of thefile, thestatusofthe file changestoOutdatedCopyuntil

you open the file or synchronize.

2 Type a version comment in the Save A Version dialog box. Then click Continue to complete the promotion.

To revert to the last version in Bridge

Note: You can perform this task only if you have access to the full Version Cue feature set, available in Adobe Creative

Suite or in a shared workspace. See “Availability of Version Cue features” on page 29 for more information.

❖ In Bridge, choose Tools > Version Cue > Revert To Last Version.