3 Replies Latest reply: Jun 24, 2013 1:31 AM by GJ du Toit RSS

    Track changes in footnotes

    GJ du Toit Community Member

      Is there any hope that future releases of InCopy might track changes in footnotes?

      This shortcoming is a real pain for me. The documents I use an InCopy workflow for (regularly updated looseleaf law works) consist mostly of long footnotes, and I have to index and format new material added to those footnotes, but I can't see where the added material is! Terrible shortcoming.

        • 1. Re: Track changes in footnotes
          Pickory Community Member

          Hello,

           

          There is a free script here that shows track changes in the layout view, it also prints the changes.

          http://www.kerntiff.co.uk/free-stuff/editmarksviewer

          P.

          • 2. Re: Track changes in footnotes
            Pickory Community Member

            Hello,

             

            I did try to reply to you by email, but my emails are being bounced back.

             

            After my initial test I thought track changes were being recorded in footnotes. Well in IC 5.5 Mac they are, but they are only visible to a script. These track changes do not survive when the story is checked back into InDesign.

             

            If I anchore a text box in my footnote and use that for the footnote copy, track changes work, and can be displayed in InDesign and InCopy, in layout view and can be printed. The down side, you cannot seet the footnote text in galley for full screen views in IC.

             

            So there is a sort of work round, but is a bodge.

             

            P.

            • 3. Re: Track changes in footnotes
              GJ du Toit Community Member

              It's interesting that you say IC 5.5 Mac tracked changes in footnotes. The editors I work with use InCopy 6 (Windows and Mac), and changes in footnotes are not tracked.

              Anchoring a text box in a footnote is a clever workaround. But I'm afraid it won't help me: I need it for multi-volume works; more than 1000 pages per volume; more than half of which is footnotes — it's not going to be an option to put all the footnotes in frames! I'm still hoping that soon Adobe or some third party will come up with a solution …