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I believe there used to be a way to insert custom graphics within a line of type by simply copying them from the artboard, and then pasting with the type cursor selected, but I'm not finding that functionality any more. In this case, I'm pasting large custom quote marks (that differ from the font's quotes) within the text. I'm doing this multiple times and need the custom marks to behave as part of the text itself.
InDesign can do that, paste a graphic into a textflow, but Illustrator cannot use inline graphics.
You may want to create your own font for that purpose; https://www.fontself.com
As Ton said, that is not possible in Illustrator. As a poor workaround you could select the graphic and apply a text wrap under the Object menu. Position the graphic and group it with the text. Unfortunately, if the text needs to be edited, the graphic will not flow or move move with the edited text. You would need to move the graphic manually.
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InDesign can do that, paste a graphic into a textflow, but Illustrator cannot use inline graphics.
You may want to create your own font for that purpose; https://www.fontself.com
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As Ton said, that is not possible in Illustrator. As a poor workaround you could select the graphic and apply a text wrap under the Object menu. Position the graphic and group it with the text. Unfortunately, if the text needs to be edited, the graphic will not flow or move move with the edited text. You would need to move the graphic manually.
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Thanks for all the replies & suggestions; I must have been recalling that functionality in inDesign (or Freehand, going way back). I haven't tried Fontself, but that's good to know about, too.
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I believe there used to be a way to insert custom graphics within a line of type by simply copying them from the artboard, and then pasting with the type cursor selected, but I'm not finding that functionality any more. In this case, I'm pasting large custom quote marks (that differ from the font's quotes) within the text. I'm doing this multiple times and need the custom marks to behave as part of the text itself.
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You may be thinking of Freehand or of InDesign's anchored objects. (See also this thread.)
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Duplicate post, post merged
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Indeed, Ton.
At least we are consistent.
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As we are most of the time 🙂