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Originally Posted by charlesatan
Re: editing.
The "extra" step of editing (i.e. might introduce errors) is moot. I mean yes, there is a chance that a correction might be missed and not inputted (and in fact, it's been my experience working in a magazine that this has happened). But when editing, the editor isn't making those changes directly on the file anyway. It's usually the graphic artist, who's familiar with the program (InDesign or Quark).
Depending on the editing stage of the manuscript, the file might not be in Word, but an InDesign/Quark Express file exported to PDF.
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A publisher who pays a graphic artist to input changes for book production is wasting time and money. Most publishers expect the copyeditor or inhouse production editor to make those changes before the files are sent to the InDesign person.
The InDesign person will enter some corrections following
proofreading, assuming the proofreading is not done in InCopy, but the copyedited file for books is provided in final form, usually in Word, and imported into InDesign.