Best practice for text and images in InDesign

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Hi all,More newbie questions.As a person who is used to MS Word, if I needed to increase paragraph spacing I would normally use carriage returns, paragraph breaks or whatever the current terminolgy is to create new paragraphs. If I needed more than one line between paragraphs I would use multiple breaks. Enter InDesign. My current document was imported from Word and I need to insert images. The document is in A5 format, eventually to be printed as a book of around 150 pages. The text on each page is in one text frame per page.At this stage I feel I don't need to have images surrounded by text, mainly due to the fact it is A5 and the images would be too small, so they will probably be about 2/3 to full page width.As far as I can see, to achieve this between sentences or paragraphs, I need to enter multiple paragraph breaks so I have space to insert the image, as per attached screen shot. Is this the best way?If I do not need book text at the bottom of the image, I have used a page break which seems to work well. Regards, Steve

Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted Answer

Hello again, OzPhotoMan

In Word and in InDesign, multiple paragraphs returns to space text is frowned upon. Both have options for paragraph space before and/or after each paragraph. (This is not to be confused with leading, also called line spacing.)

In your example, however, you need more than pargraph spacing. You have a couple of options to place the photo, depending on what you want to happen if the text changes:

Use inline graphics, so the images move with the text.
Use text wrap on the images so the text is "pushed" out of the way. This would be used if the photos should stay put on the page, even if the text moves. (Captions can be handles a couple of ways--text wrap or ignore text wrap.)

Since you are on a budget, sign up for a free month of LinkedIn Learning (formally Lynda.com), and watch the training videos.

Robert at ID-Tasker · Answer

Glad you found the solution &#128578; Another one is to put graphics over / under the text frame and turn on TEXT WRAP - step 4) from your link. This is preferable when gaphics needs to be on the top / bottom of the page - unrelated from the surrounding text. If it needs to flow with the text - then you should do it as per link.

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