It means zero cost per editorial seat, which again is just Google Docs. Using DocsFlow means you need no special resources to build, maintain or learn the editorial side, which is just Google Docs. Your authors and editors are no longer “frozen out” once layout begins. So you can format, layout, and edit in InDesign, while your authors and editors continue creating and editing story content together in real time using Google Docs documents, all without ever losing work. The Pro version provides a two-way link so you can push your InDesign story changes back to Google Docs. More importantly, DocsFlow maintains a dynamic link so it can intelligently merge Google Docs changes into the InDesign story contents on each link update, rather than just replacing the story. (You can also place by dragging and dropping files from Google Drive.) With DocsFlow, you place online Google Docs documents (including tables and graphics) and spreadsheets (Pro version) as InDesign story contents, just like normal text or spreadsheet files. Bring your online authors and editors into your InDesign production processĭocsFlow, a plug-in for InDesign, for the first time combines the collaborative editing power of Google Docs with the layout power of InDesign, adding its own dynamic linking and sophisticated merge technologies to supercharge your editorial and production workflows. You can do all this, and more, with DocsFlow, your Google Docs-based time machine. What if you could export original InDesign content to Google Docs online, allowing collaborators to work on the exported content, and then re-import their changes with a click using the same magic merge?.What if you could push your content changes back to the original Google Docs documents at any time, staying synchronized with your authors and editors?.What if, when they had updates, you could magically merge their work into yours with a click (as a link update), without losing any work on either side, and with automatic notification of any conflicts?.What if you could place Google Docs documents with live links in InDesign, and proceed with production, while your authors and editors continued working on the original documents?.What if you could have a time machine to speed up InDesign editorial production, based on the world’s best real-time collaborative editor, Google Docs?.

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