Plan and research topics – create layouts and texts
Improve Your Editorial Workflow
The ideal integration of vjoon K4 within Adobe InDesign and InCopy is shown in the system's dedicated menu – here you can find all relevant K4 Layout™ or K4 Edit™ commands. In addition, K4 panels are your window to vjoon K4 from within Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy and K4 Web Portal™. The structured list shows you at a glance what your individual tasks are, who is currently processing which document, the status of tasks you have already completed, and much more. You can see a preview, open old versions of articles, images, advertisements and layouts, or search for any kind of meta data information. You can choose between various query modes and save your own queries and panel settings.
Plan and research topics
Plan and research the topics for upcoming issues and projects with K4 Collections™. It is the perfect place to compile and capture all the information, images and URLs you need for an impending story and get started generating initial layouts and rough drafts. K4 Collections let you work in InDesign, InCopy or the K4 Web Portal, ensuring you and your team enjoy ubiquitous, 24/7 access to research and stories in the works. Port selected elements straight out of a K4 Collection and right into the publishing workflow. All the collated background information and every element that is not required immediately for the production workflow remains with the story and readily accessible in the K4 Collection.
Working simultaneously and being up-to-date
With vjoon K4, multiple users can work simultaneously on any object type - even on the same object. For example you can edit an object's meta data while a colleague edits text or alters the layout. You can even work on each individual text box within an article, e.g. the editor creates headline and and body text while the photo editor edits the captions.
Exchange information and track changes
Digital sticky notes (K4 Sticky Notes™) applied to layouts and articles serve to share comments and suggest corrections in a real-time chat interface. Revisions are documented and can be tracked by saving any desired number of versions.
Managing Office documents and generating captions and credits
You can also use K4 to manage Microsoft Office documents, e.g. Word or Excel files, and get automatic notifications when objects have changed for these content types as well. Other important features are the automatic creation of captions and credits (K4 Captions & Credits™) for images and configurable shortcuts for K4 commands (as known from InDesign).
