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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