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September 13, 2014 at 7:06 am #70551drisconsultMember
Moving from Corel Ventura to Indesign was a very stressful experience. Having discovered that there are some amazing features in Indesign that did not exist in Ventura, I was very happy to proceed, until I came to layers.
I have a PNG graphic of an Access Query showing the fields in vertiacl and horizontal views together.
I need to insert a rectangle on top of this graphic, which I have done
Then I need to insert my text box into the rectangle, which I cannot do.The text box says “Fields appear vertically and horizontally”
Hoping that someone will get me out of this swamp!
Regards
TerenceIs it possible to submit screenshots with topics?
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September 13, 2014 at 10:40 am #70562Dwayne HarrisMember
I can’t help with your problem, but so far as posting screenshots, you’d have to host it somewhere else (drop box, 4Share, etc.) and provide the link to it. You can’t imbed screenshots here.
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September 14, 2014 at 3:06 pm #70572Tom VenetiaMember
Terence,
I will first reply to your last question. As Dwayne wrote, this forum does not allow posting screenshots, but you can post web links (URLs) to an address where such screenshot or image was uploaded. Many members of this forum use this site:
https://imgur.com/
Now to your problem:
I wish you could upload a screenshot illustrating what you call “fields in vertical and horizontal views together.” This is not clear to me so my answer may not be what you are looking for.
InDesign (ID) uses layers very similarly to Photoshop, that is as a pile of platters metaphor, that is the topmost layer covers the one below it (unless the object has transparency) and so on. You can create as many layers as you wish, limited only by your computer’s memory.
Not going into what “fields in vertical and horizontal views together” means, my understanding is that you can create three layers:
1. for the PNG graphic
2. (above 1) for the rectangle that should sit on top of the PNG graphic
3. (above 2) for a text box that will sit above the rectangle.
In the Layers menu the layers should be placed in this order: 3 (topmost), 2 and 1.
If this is not what your problem is, please submit a screenshot using the site mentioned above.
Good luck
Tom
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