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August 17, 2022
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Mysterious wrapping

  • August 17, 2022
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I cannot figure out why the text shown here is wrapping the way you see (sorry, I blurred the text because it is unapproved so far). You would assume that it is the photo on the right which does have text wrapping for the bounding box turned on. Likewise with the red and black graphics above. But I deleted these elements, along with literally every other thing on the page, one at a time to determine which it was, but doing so does not change that wrapping. Turning on "ignore text wrap" for the text does make the wrapping disappear.

 

Given this, I cannot figure out what is causing it, so of course, how to fix it. Other ideas of what to check?

 

 

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Correct answer James Gifford—NitroPress

Thanks James. No, adjusting the width or hyphenation does not change wrapping. It is wrapping around some phantom element. Again, I deleted everything on the page but this text frame, and the wrapping remains. I also just deleted the text frame and recreated it in case there was something odd about it, but the wrapping didn't change. 

 

I can edit the shape of the text frame but not get exactly what I need because the text frame is also filled with that grey, and so I need it to the top of the margin. Is there some setting I am missing to turn off the uniform inset spacing?


The ideal solution would be to (1) find out what's causing that bizarre wrapping, and then (2) set wrapping with the angled object. But you knew that. 🙂

 

Does the wrapping in the text box change if you move it around? Have you done a "select all" on the page to see if there's a phantom object, maybe on a hidden layer, that's causing the effect?

 

And are you sure there's no soft returns in the text forcing those breaks?

 

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Known Participant
August 17, 2022

I did not explain that I want to move this text up a little and have the wrapping respond to the angled graphic above it. So turning on "ignore text wrapping" is not the solution for this.

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
August 17, 2022

It looks as if it may be wrapping to the elements in the photo next to it. Your best option may be to turn all wrap off and change the text box shape to follow the angle above.

 

Peter Spier
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Community Expert
August 18, 2022

Maybe. I don't understand why there are two related layers here. When I click the first layer in the panel, there is a larger frame showing, but deleting it deletes the whole image. I resized the frame so that it was way to the right and should not affect text wrapping, but doing so had no affect on the wrapping. So I don't think that's it.

 


It's pretty hard to tell exactly what's going on without actually having the file, but my gut says that blue frame on top of the photo  is the "rectangle" object just above the selected Sanchez_baby.psd in the screen shot. Try clicking the eyeball next to it to turn off visibility and see if it disappears. If it does, turn it back on and delete it. If not, try the one further up the list.