Comments on: Turning on the preference for “Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath.” Yes or No?

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:44:34 +0000

Jenn,
found the solution here:

http://indesignsecrets.com/automatic-drop-cap-backgrounds.php/comment-page-1#comment-87065

1) a text box with the graphic (and allowed to extend beyond boundaries)
2) the text box put as inline graphic in the textcolumn…

haven’t tried yet, but seems to work
/j

By: Javier

Javier — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:46:56 +0000

Jenn, I’m looking for exact same thing! …did you solve this??

I have subtitles in the text, and want to put a graphic behind each of them (essencially a colored box), that extends to the left outside the text margin…

Anybody???

/thanks
/j

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:22:03 +0000

I read some of the above discussion and may have a related problem. Can you someone let me know if there is a solution for this?

I would like to have an anchored graphic behind the text that allows the graphic to extend past the left column margin- the only way I know how to get it to work is by choosing “Custom” anchored graphic. However, by making it custom, the text is getting pushed behind the graphic. Please note: I do not have text wrap on and I have already tried turning the “ignore text wrap” off and on and this does not seem to solve the problem.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:27:01 +0000

@Denise: No, sorry, InDesign does not wrap text that is on the same line as, or the lines before, an anchored object. Frustrating, I know. That’s why sometimes I put the anchored object in the previous paragraph and then use Custom anchored options to place it where I want it to be.

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:36:51 +0000

Is there a way to have the first line of type wrap around an inline anchored object. Indesign says it doesn’t and seem to be right. I do not have the only wrap below preference turned on.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:20:04 +0000

A bit late, but I can give a good example of when you might want to use this preference, when the “ignore text wrap” option isn’t sufficient.

Imagine you have a picture of a dog, with some text about dogs wrapped around it. Nearby, you have a picture of a cat with some text about cats wrapped around it.

But — what if you had these two side by side? What if you wanted the cat’s tail to fade out behind the dog’s text? Or what if part of the dog just came close to the cat’s text — close enough to make it wrap, but you didn’t really want it to wrap?

By: J.Esteban

J.Esteban — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:33:05 +0000

Eureka! I found a solution to a problem related to this one.

If you group, let’s say, a circular frame with wrap activated, and a text frame, then the wrap affects to the frame in the group (also to frames around that do not have the ignore option turned on).

But here’s the interesting thing: you can then group that two grouped objects with a larger frame, and apply wrap to this new group, and the group wrap will affect other text frames but not the one grouped inside with the circle!

It’s may be a better solution for those who have problems with a complex disposition of objets with text runaround at various levels…

By: Juanma Castillo

Juanma Castillo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:50:40 +0000

To Phyllis. I can show you an example of that: “…But to be honest, it’s *rare* that I need the text wrap to affect something above…”

I use an Object Style as separation between short news that it´s a line with special end points, (dashed ones). You can´t do that with object style in the text box (like CSS does) and I need the text wrap of this line affects every text box nearby couse… It marks up and down nearest distance between these short news!!

By: Juanma Castillo

Juanma Castillo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:46:32 +0000

To prozacgrrl: It only works if printer can. I discovered a lot ot problems with print process since I arrived this company, Everything must be rasterized like PDFX1 setting-

By: Juanma Castillo

Juanma Castillo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:44:41 +0000

Hello friends! Now I´m creating the layout of a new important spanish videogames mag and I´m just in the decission of turning on/off that option. I understand the benefits but I´m afraid my layout composers would not be able to understand the concept. Now I´ve got an 80% created and I´m not sure if I must switch it off again.
It could be interesting share the layout with all of you, friends. Where can I send it?