Anchoring Disrupts Text Trap

Question

Hey all,I've been working on getting a book ready to be hard published, and I've managed to teach myself quite a bit about InDesign in the last couple of days. There's one thing that is perplexing me though, and causing a lot of frustrating.The book in question has a few dozen pictures scattered throughout the text. I've been able to import the pictures, give them a caption, and use text wrap just fine. But when I "anchor" the picture so that it will stay in place as I make edits, the picture suddenly ignores text wrap. It's usually just a partial ignore; like a line or a paragraph.I've attached two pictures to show what I'm talking about. Before I anchor it, everything is perfect. The picture is in place, with a caption, and the text is wrapping around both objects. Then, I place the anchor, and several lines of text are ignoring my text wrap.Any help would be appreciated.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Accepted Answer

Well, some of us think of this as the imfamous Text Trap! <grin>

This is a well-know deficiency in Adobe InDesign. InDesign ignores the first line or lines in a paragraph that appear before the anchor.

Royal PITA.

Workaround: move the anchor to the end of the preceding paragraph. Depending on your layout design, you might have to move it to the preceding column, as well as above the anchor point.

Vote to get this fixed at
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/34501540-anchored-objects-need-be-able-to-apply-a-text-wrap

Frank5FF8 · Answer

Title should be "Anchoring Disrupts Text Wrap", not trap.

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