Keep the comments coming (or email to )! Thanks–it’s all very helpful as we hone the product for first release.In the last few years, weʼve been trying to solve how designers and marketers get their InDesign files translated. I.e., edits on GDocs aren’t merged until you say exporting the story out to GDocs is on our to-do list (and automatically linking to the results), so you can export an existing story for further editing. But we’re definitely thinking about how to solve the problem of sync’ing all the way back to there’s only a download link for Macs right now–getting the Windows version released is a fairly complex process, but we hope to have something in a day or you can break the link at any time to stop edits, or just not update any more even if you don’t break the link. Right now we’re assuming you’re doing the bulk of the content editing on GDocs, with formatting happening in InDesign (though you can edit in both places). To respond to some of the comments here (I’m from Em Software)–thanks for the enthusiasm, first! (In particular we’re trying to figure out how best to push back edits from the document. What do you think? Can you imagine using this for small workgroup collaboration? For your own workflow? And at this moment, they only have the Mac version available check back soon for the Windows version. GoogleDocs by opening the Story Editor:ĭocsFlow requires CS5 or later. And yet, here’s the coolest part: DocsFlow keeps track of the changes using (yup!) Track Changes! So you can see what was added or removed in InDesign vs. The whole “diff and merge” technology is exceedingly tricky to do. That said, I’m quite sure there will be plenty of bugs in this merging - especially with complicated changes. That means if you make a change to the story in GoogleDocs, and then make a different change in your InDesign document, and then update the link? DocsFlow merges the two edits together! That’s far nicer than InDesign’s old behavior of trashing any and all edits in the InDesign version. But they’ve gone a step farther than Adobe ever has: They allow editing in either InDesign or GoogleDocs (or both!). If DocsFlow just let you link to a googledocs file, it would be enough. Also, if you have comments in the googledoc, those show up as notes in InDesign (so you can see them in the Story Editor, Notes panel, or by hovering over the note icon): I’m pushing them to let us map to our own styles, but that’s not in there at the time of this writing. In this beta, paragraph styles are currently mapped to special styles the plug-in creates. Also, check out the path and other info in the Link Info section of the Links panel above! When you double-click the modified icon, it updates in InDesign. The change shows up here in a matter of seconds. The “modified” icon in the above image indicates that after I placed the story, someone edited the file in googledocs. If you look in the Links panel, you’ll see the file: Then you can choose a document to place it. You’ll have to sign in to your google account the first time. It’s slow, ungainly, and - most galling of all - it doesn’t even support paragraph styles, much less character styles.)ĭocsFlow has just entered public beta, which means it’s still a bit clunky and em software really wants feedback - what works, what doesn’t work, what could be made better.Īfter you install the plug-in, you can choose File > Place from Google Docs. The difference is that ’s Buzzword service currently pales in comparison to Google’s product. (Note that this isn’t that different than InDesign CS5’s built-in Place from Buzzword feature. Yes, I said “linking,” meaning that DocsFlow doesn’t just let you import the documents, it also lets you maintain links to them. Until now.Įm Software - a company with a very long history of plug-ins and add-ons - has developed DocsFlow, a plug-in for linking google docs files into InDesign. But there’s only one problem: I can’t easily import googledocs files into InDesign. Plus, the document lives in “the cloud” so I can access it whenever I have a web connection. I can start writing a document, let someone else edit it, and even work on the document with multiple authors at the same time. It’s easy to use, fast, and has lots of collaboration features. I love google docs for quick and easy online word processing.
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