Anchored Object / First line of text not wrapping

[davecourtemanche]

What could be causing the drink name to not wrap to the anchored object?

You can see in the screen shot that the text wrap should be effecting it.

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

Yeh it has to be anchored to the line above - it can't be anchored in the same line.

Another option is a 2 cell table with no stroke or insets - and put the image in the cell on the left and the text on the right. 

It's a bit neater at times.

[davecourtemanche]

Tables would be funky for this application. Seems like an unexpected behavior. Have to put in a feature request, I guess.

[Eugene Tyson]

There's already plenty of feature requests for this if you search.

It's been like this since it's implementation. And has never really got any upgrades.

Pity, it's such a powerful way to work and works well in a lot of situations. 

But it's just not something that seems to be getting improvements.

[rob day]

Seems like an unexpected behavior

Hi @davecourtemanche , One option is to anchor into an empty paragraph return above:

Anchor the image into the empty paragrah return

Custom Position with top left Reference Point

[Eugene Tyson]

So it has to be on the previous paragraph like I said originally

[mickh]

Dave, I was having exactly the same issue and it was driving me nuts. 
And I didn't like the runaround of adding an empty line above and anchoring to that.

The fix is to anchor it 'Inline or Above Line' with a negative Y offset - it works perfectly.

[Eugene Tyson]

That is a nice workaround - but can become problematic if the leading changes, or the text shifts to the top/bottom of the column, the anchored object can sometimes run off the page. 

A more stable solution if it's just beside a paragraph is using a table - it flows with the text and the image won't suddenly drop off. It's a bit of an extra step but not much - and it's the most reliable way I have found. 

[rob day]

and it's the most reliable way I have found.

There are different ways  of handling anchors—the reason I prefer putting the image on its own paragraph is it can be styled with an Object Style, and later the image frame can be adjusted without affecting its position relative to the surronding text:

Resize the image frame:

[Eugene Tyson]

Yeh - horses for course, many ways to do it. Was just offering a suggestion. 

It still has to be anchored to the line above - been like this since inception and no improvement to the way it works.