CtrlCrossTalkID (for InDesign)

The CtrlCrossTalkID Plugin enables InDesign users to manage our popular CrossTalk workflow. CtrlCrossTalkID makes the collaboration between InDesign and InCopy users transparent. In addition it refines the initial InCopy workflow to better suit the needs of publishers, agencies, inhouse production and other collaborative workgroups.

Art directors and copywriters can work on the same document, the copywriter works in Adobe InCopy, a specialized text editor, while the art director works in Adobe InDesign with full control over the document and its layout.

With CtrlCrossTalkID, InDesign users can manage stories in a document by locking them to prevent an InCopy user from further modifying approved texts, while still allowing them access to other texts in the same file. CtrlCrossTalkID even allows the InDesign user to completely disable the CrossTalk workflow so that an InCopy user can no longer edit a document when it has reached its final stage.

Key Features (InDesign with CrossTalkID):

  • Enable the CrossTalk workflow
  • Lock stories on pages
  • Lock stories on masterpage(s)
  • Localized languages supported: Swedish, English, German and Italian

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For older versions contact support (at) ctrlsoftware.com. 

Trial versions are fully functional. Entering a serial makes the trial a full version. 

Manage the CrossTalk workflow with InDesign

CtrlCrossTalkID lets InDesign users manage the popular CrossTalk workflow and makes collaboration between InDesign and InCopy users transparent. Art directors and copywriters work on the same document – the copywriter in InCopy, the art director in InDesign with full control of the layout.

With CtrlCrossTalkID you can lock stories to stop the InCopy user from changing approved text while they keep working on the rest of the file, or disable the CrossTalk workflow entirely once a document reaches its final stage.

CrossTalk workflow – layout and text team working together.