Graphic Outside Column and Runaround

[Mike Wickham]

I am unsuccessfully trying to place a graphic (EPS photo with clipping path) with the following conditions:

1. Part of the graphic is outside the column and part is inside the column.

2. Text should run around the portion inside the column.

3. The graphic should move with the text.

I can place the graphic in an anchored frame set to Outside Column or Outside Text Frame, and move it around to the correct position, but runaround will not work. Or, I can click in the page margin and import the graphic (background graphic?) without an anchored frame, and runaround works-- but then the graphic does not move with the text.

Does anyone know if what I want to do is possible or how to make it happen? I even tried creating a very small graphic in an anchored frame at the end of a paragraph,  and then tried to group it with the background graphic, but they can't be grouped.

[Arnis Gubins]

I'm afraid your options are limited. If you want run-around, then you have to use the AFrame run-in positions (i.e. the start or end of a paragraph). If you want the graphic to repel text and straddle columns, then it has to be placed manually and the run-around property set.

[Bob_Niland]

No assurance that this will work, but ...

If you have only a small number of such outside-run-in graphics, and they always appear at the same place on the page, you can create a custom Master Page (or L/R pair) for each one, with the graphic on the MP, on the page (not in the text frame), run-around enabled.

Use Master Page Mapping to assign that page to the [unique] paragraph formats that need it.

So you might have MPs Left.ImageA, Right.ImageA, Left.ImageB, etc. and Paragraph Formats Heading2.ImageA, Heading2.ImageB, etc., with a MasterPageMaps table of:

UnstructMasterPageMaps

Book Update (Yes or No): Yes

Para Tag Name      RH MP           LH MP          Range

Heading2.ImageA    Right.ImageA    Left.ImageA    Single

Heading2.ImageB    Right.ImageB    Left.ImageB    Single

Heading2.ImageC    Right.ImageC    Left.ImageC    Single

I tried it, and it does work. The graphic, however, only "moves with the text" in that if the unique triggering paragraph format moves to a different page, doing an Apply Master Pages operation will make that page the one with the graphic, but it can't move up and down the page.