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Text wrap seem erratic (Was "indesign")

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
May 23, 2017
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Using CC2017 I am trying to create a book of 100 pages and 20 pictures. Text wrap around pictures sometimes works, sometimes not. Picture locks to text frame only sometimes and sometimes not, works very erratic. Spent a lot of time on things that I've gotten so used to working with that I just feel I am wasting time with a product that still has fundamental problems. Any positive results out there for similar projects?

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Barb Binder

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Absolutely. It comes down to learning how InDesign handles actions like text wrap and anchoring images to text, and understanding that what you learned from a previous application like Word, for example, doesn't translate directly over. Once you know how to do it, it's both straightforward and reliable.

You can show us a layout and ask specific questions, or better yet, here's a link for 10 days at Lynda.com—you might watch David Blatner's tutorials on these specific topics on his InDesign Essentials Training title. 30 minutes of watching the explanations can save you hours on your layout.

InDesign CC 2015 Essential Training

Online Video Tutorials at lynda.com • lynda.com

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Well, yes, most of the planet runs successful publishing projects using InDesign. Why don't you describe with more detail what you are doing and how you observe it not working? If you provide details, maybe someone can help sort you out.

Mike Witherell

juergh47703416Author

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Here is what I have:

One page of a very basic document containing

4 frames with a picture inside #1, #2, #3, #4

1 frame with text inside

What seems to work on all frames is fit frame to content or vice versa

What does not seem to be doing anything at all is auto-fit

Moving all the frame contents around works most of the time but:

Sometimes, (not all the time) When moving #4 picture (not by it’s frame circle) it just moves the frame, not the picture

After moving #3 picture a little, now moving #4 picture works the way it should, the picture moves with the frame.

Conclusion of this exercise is that the movement of the content of one frame affects the movement of the content of another frame.

Like I said, the operations does not seem to be consistent..

Barb Binder

Community Expert

What does not seem to be doing anything at all is auto-fit

By default, when you resize a frame containing an image, the image is not resized. Turning autofit on for a graphic frame means that when you resize the frame, the graphic will resize along with it. If you don't resize the frame, you will not see autofit do anything.

Sometimes, (not all the time) When moving #4 picture (not by it’s frame circle) it just moves the frame, not the picture

If the image is inside a frame, and you move the frame the image will move along with it. If you click the doughnut (aka the Content Grabber) you will move the picture inside the frame, and not the frame. If you inadvertently click the content grabber and don't realize it, when you go to move the frame, the picture will move instead. You can see this is about to happen because the image handles are amber.

Dragging now will move the frame:

Dragging now will move the image inside the frame:

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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