Design and editorial, often played against one another by their disparate layout and word processing software, finally have common ground, an equalizer, in InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help designers establish an effective, efficient collaboration workflow with editorial, one that can virtually eliminate the need for designers to effect copy edits and proof after proof after proof.

Whether you need to collaborate with the person over the cube wall from you or across the planet, InDesign CS3 has several powerful ways to coordinate joint efforts among creatives. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help you build an efficient, effective collaboration workflow.

Step-by-step, how the creative team initiates, controls, and concludes a typical InDesign/InCopy workflow.

Optimizing a $200 million workflow with InCopy CS2 in 7 days.

Adobe’s InCopy promises benefits from increased collaboration, with Adobe’s famed integration with InDesign CS2, for editorial/creative layout workflows as a stand-alone application for workgroups of 2-12 members. Does it deliver? Associate Editor Sam Klein gives it the acid test, finds the benefits.

Go in deep for a long overdue examination of InCopy, the features new to version CS2, how InCopy cut one major publisher’s 60-day book production schedule down to 9 days, and how it will save you time, man-power, and money over Microsoft Word in a collaborative creative and editorial workflow.