Adding a paragraph ruins formatting later in document

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March 21, 2018
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HI all,

I'm about to hand in my PhD thesis that contains vast numbers of images/audio/video (EPUB format).

I need to add a paragraph. This creates another page as the text reflows.

Unfortunately, this causes all the placement of my images/audio/video to be misaligned. I imagine that these are staying in a fixed position, but the text is moving around them, causing the formatting problem.

How do I get around this? I don't want to have to place all the elements again...

Darren

EPUB

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Derek Cross

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Presumably this is a FXL ePub?

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wdazzjazzAuthor

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I am not sure what FXL is. I'm using fixed layout - is that it?

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Yes (as opposed to a Reflowable text ePub).

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

generally, you'd use anchored objects if you want images and other elements to move relative to text. if you haven't done this, i'm not sure there is a solution except for repositioning everything.

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wdazzjazzAuthor

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I’m not sure exactly what I’ve done - from memory I think I used the File>Place command to insert video or audio or images. Is this the wrong thing? Some of these items have an actual anchor symbol next to them - doesn’t that mean they’re anchored? Sorry, this is my first time using InDesign so I’m pretty much in the dark...

I saw a post about a similar issue online, that was solved via scripting. Can this be used in this case?

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

Work with anchored objects in InDesign

basically you can just place an object on the page without reference to anything else, or you can place it with reference to an anchor in text, which is a sort of special character that sits in a text frame and represents the object. you can then tell the object to move as the text anchor moves, so if text reflows, images and other objects do as well.

if you can see anchors next to objects, then that's what they are, but what exactly they do when text reflows depends on their individual settings.

i don't know of a scripted solution personally, but it's possible something like that exists.

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