Hello,
I have reported this issue in prerelease but recieved no answer so I decided to post it here too. (I could not remember if I did or not but couldn't find that I did).
It's been a longe time since I wanted to report this behavior (perhaps someone did), but for some reason I did not. I came to find this problem when I was working on a unique job but I will only describe the problematic part.
I created a text frame and made it's frame into "Type on Path". I then inserted a horizontal stroke with baseline shift so It will always be on the same distance from the top when I change the text frame's height. The text frame was also defined with Text Wrap (Jump to next column). I did it because there is no way to give a stroke to one side of a text box or any other graphic object (like you can do in a table cell).
The text frame was placed on a parent page, on both sides of the parent spread and was threaded (In my case from Right to Left) like this:
I then went to page 1 I loaded the text I had in another text frame on the pasteboard and shift+Clicked the frame on the first page to auto flow it into these frame I created in the Paren Spread. InDesign didn't recognize that they are threaded in 2 ways:
1. The text flew into the first frame but then it flew into the type on path area.
2. InDesign flew the text only to the Right side pages and ignored that the text frame was threaded.
When a text frame is set with "Type on Path" area, InDesign prefers to flow the loaded text into that area and will ignore the threaded text frame.
I hope I managed to explain it as I find it a bit complicated.
I did a test on a Right to Left document and also on a Left to Right document and found the same behavior but I only tested in on my Middle Eastern version.
I also created a video that shows what I was doing.
Can you create this behavior too?
Thank you,
Shlomit
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When you first click into the text frame you can see your Text Insertion Point blinking in the top on the Path - as it selects the Text Path first.
Click again to access the Text Frame
It will then show the Text Insertion Point blinking in the Text Area - then Paste the text
Video attached
Obviously I'm missing something - but it's working for me - maybe I'm doing something different
By @Eugene Tyson
I've done EXACTLY as @Shlomit Heymann described.
I think you are copy&pasting withing the TextFrame - not by linking from already existing TF?
Should work if it's an object style on the Parent Page let me try it - I'll have to come back soon as I don't have a computer in front of me.
By @Eugene Tyson
It can't work as you don't know which ParaStyle will be at the top - body, header, numbered / bullet list, etc.
Yeh I was close with my idea off the top of my head without a computer in front of me.
I have a computer now - so here's another idea that works
Use a paragraph border at the top
and it applies on every page - as long as all the styles has this setting and they merge - then only the very top gets the line
Works for me
Base all your styles off this one and it will work everywhere - apparently.
I am still unable to replicate the flow of the text into the path of the frame.
I can paste the text into Page 1 and have an overflow box.
Then click the overflow box to load the cursor
Then add a bunch of pages
Zoom out so you can see all pages
Then ALT Click (windows) and click on each frame while holding Alt and all the frames fill with text.
But no matter what I do I can't get it to flow into the Path of the frame, odd that it doesn't happen for me.
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In short
Having Smart Text reflow works - so you can use that.
As I said before the workflow is quite unusual.
Another option might be to flow the text first - then apply the Line in the Parent Pages after the text is flowed in.
You can then Apply the Parent Pages to the pages and the line should appear
Before
Then applied the line to the text path on the Parent Pages
Then I Apply Parent Pages to all pages
And the line appears
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