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andrewm69201787
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September 5, 2018
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Text disappears when using wrap text

  • September 5, 2018
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Hi,

I am trying to add an image and need to wrap text so it fits nicely, however whenever I untick ignore text wrap my text disappears.

I tried doing this on a new document and it works fine so I am not sure if my file is somehow corrupted? I really do not want to start again.

Thanks,

Lauren

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    Correct answer Laubender

    I have stripped it all back and only the 3 layers.

    Is it possible I havent done something with my blue box in master pages which is resulting in it only working when i dont have the blue box in place?


    Hi Andrew,

    yes. If the blue frame on your master has text wrap on then all text on all applied pages of that master will react on this.

    Just turn off text wrap on that frame as well.

    Maybe you turned on text wrap when you selected no object at all.

    Then text wrap will become the default for all objects you draw.

    So make sure you did not select anything and turn text wrap off.

    Then select all objects on the spread and turn text wrap off.

    Do that for every spread and also all masters.

    After that turn text wrap on for single images only.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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    andrewm69201787Author
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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    September 5, 2018

    Hi Lauren,

    select the image and show the Text Wrap settings.

    Maybe the values show a huge wrap around?

    Could also be that a wrap is around the bounding box of the image and that is extending to all of your text.

    Also select the white background rectangle with rounded corners and show the Text Wrap settings.

    If the background rectangle is set to wrap text the riddle is solved. Turn Text wrap off for the rectangle then.

    Turn wrap on for the contour of the image.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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    DBLjan
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    September 5, 2018

    Uwe is right, the wrap-options of the image are the ones to check.

    But there is another obstacle to take: which filetype is your image? Depending on that, images can have serveral ways to boss out the background. Here is what you need to do, if you have a tiff/psd and an alpha mask.

    Check place/importoptions, select alpha mask there.

    No wrap yet:

    Just select "Wrap object form" (the black dot), dunno if I translated that right.

    See? The wrong selection of what to use to boss out the background can have bad effects. Here the whole text is wrapped away and also it doesnt fit the object.

    Now i selected the right options – Use: alpha mask. Alphamasks name: MyNameForThat.

    If you have a clipping path, in a jpg maybe, your selection would be this:

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