Dear Adobe, I'm working on a book project, and need to insert pictures which flow with the text. You have Anchored Objects to facilitate this. But the functionality of Anchored Objects is horribly designed and poorly implemented and makes laying out books nearly impossible. This is unacceptable.   I inserted many pictures in relation to the text. I add text wrap and corner rounding styles. I have to adjust some text or add a picture in the text preceding it, and the text flows around the subsequent images, making them now positioned in the wrong area of text.   To address this problem I research online and find out about Anchored Objects. I can't right-click on my already placed pictures and create anchored objects out of them. NO that would be GOOD design! Why would you do THAT?   I have to now create new Anchored Objects. So I select my picture and go to Object/Anchored Objects, and all options are greyed out. Why? I have to have nothing selected. So I deselect all objects, return to the menu, and have to Insert an object. But nothing happens. Why? Because I need to first set an input point in the text, by putting the text cursor somewhere in the body. Ideally it would be at the beginning of the paragraph in which I want to picture to be attached to. Makes sense right? WRONG! Adobe's great idea is that it has to be inserted into the line ABOVE the paragraph in order for text wrap to move the first line of the following paragraph in which the picture is to be wrapping text around itself.   Ok I do this, but hang on, the area of the picture is sometimes BLANK! Why's this? Somehow the Anchored Object is behind the text box, ok no problem, move it above it. DOESN'T WORK! Why? No Idea. Ok select the text box, send it behind, works! Great!   Another problem, the preceding text needs adjusting to clean up an orphan line, but the Anchored Objects stay on the page they were added to, they don't flow across pages!!! WTH!?! What is the use of an anchored picture next to text if it can't flow across pages with the text?!?!   This is so impossibly frustrating I feel compelled to make my own app and put Adobe out of business. Fix this or else! It seems like Adobe never listens to their customers. They're happy to be the monopoly and just let bad situations like this linger for decades.   ... View more

I'm trying to apply an image to this simple plane which I've added a brushed metal material to. But the option under Import > Place Image on Model is greyed out. Adobe: Instead of simply greying out functions and leaving users guessing as to why it's greyed out, why not save everyone the trouble and put a ? next to the greyed out item giving a reason why it's greyed out, and what to do about it? This is the first time I'm using Stager, and if it's this hard to do a simple thing like add an image, I'm never going to subscribe or buy it. I'd rather use Blender.     ... View more