That said, I’m quite sure there will be plenty of bugs in this merging - especially with complicated changes.
#DOCSFLOW FREE UPDATE#
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.
#DOCSFLOW FREE INSTALL#
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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