Indesign help needed

[DDK]

I'm having difficulty in figuring out how to make text wrap around an image. I've created to fields, one for the image and one for the text and so far the only way I see to do this, is to create additional text fields around the image and link them.

What I'd prefer is if there was a way to simply make the corner of the text field 'indent' around the image.

How do you do this? Any help would be appreciated. For an idea of the problem, I've included a cropped screenshot, below:

 

[DDK]

Oops, disregard this, I figured it out. InDesign is SO much more intuitive than Blark

For those who want to know how I did it, I'll explain. I selected the image and used the, "Bring object to front" command, then selected the "Text wrap..." option and just messed with it till I liked what I got.

I had Quark 4 for about six months before I lost it in a move and despite many attempts couldn't figure things like this out. I played with InDesign for a couple of minutes and figured this out. I'm tellin' yah, InDesign is da bomb

 

[2WS-Steve]

If you're using 2.0:

Place the text on one layer and images on another layer. Click the images and simply open the Text Wrap window from the Window menu. That gives you several options for how to run the text wrap.

 

[HellHound]

LOL

Sorry Fourecks, we've had this discussion a hundred times before, but I don't consider that "more intuitive". Quark and Indesign both wrap text aroudn images with little to no work involved.

I actually bit the bullet and gave InDesign a spin last week. While the tables are nicer (and I like the ability to work with PSD files in a native environment), I'm still a Quark fan.

My opinion would probably change if InDesign actually imported tables from word properly.

 

[DDK]

LOL

Sorry Fourecks, we've had this discussion a hundred times before, but I don't consider that "more intuitive". Quark and Indesign both wrap text aroudn images with little to no work involved.

Well, by intuitive I mean that it's designed in a manner that, as a human being, I expect it to be designed. It's given human values through it's interface and menu option design. Essentially, instead of you working out the program, the program is working for you.

It's a design philosophy. Much like the Mac OS and hardware design philosophy.

If you like being a slave to your computer, programs and OS... well, we've had THAT argument before too

P.S. I should mention that it wasn't Quark 4 I had used but rather, Q3.something... can't remember exactly. I hated it so I didn't use it very much and it was given to me free by a publisher friend who had upgraded to 4 so it wasn't like I had a major investment in its use.

 

[Scarogoth]

My opinion would probably change if InDesign actually imported tables from word properly.

I wonder quite what you mean by this. If the table is correctly laid out in Word, my own experience is that InDesign grabs it very well. I must confess, however, that I haven't touched Quark since 3.3.2, so don't know whether Quark does it better... but Convert to Table, where there are just tabs in the way, is also very useful. Once you've mastered tables, it gets easier and easier. If only they'd invent a one-click "Table Style" the same way they have Paragraph and Text Styles, I'd be the happiest bunny in the world. [If this exists, and I'm just stupid... for once I'd appreciate being lampooned. ]

Fourecks... glad you discovered Text Wrap. It's a synch, though I must confess if the image is TOO complex, and your document TOO long, and you're fitting to image... I'm ashamed to say that it IS possible to make InDesign fall over.

I must say, however, that I consider neither programme "intuitive"... I'm not sure that software that complex can justify such a description. However, I am another InDesign fan, that much is certain. The one thing that I simply could NOT give up now I have it, is OpenType and the Adobe Paragraph composer. Woof! If you need any more advice, please don't hesitate to ask -- I've notched up at least 2 years on the programme now, so might be able to help.

Scarogoth on Yahoo [ICQ 159142060] if that's any help, though being in England means our time zones might be different.

 

[V_Shane]

As far as importing tables, Indesign does a phenominal job with MS Excell, they come out exactly. So if you ahve problems with MS word tables, try Excell and place them that way. If you mean collumns jsut click that little "+" sign on the bottom of the placement and it automatically creates a new collumn.

 

[RangerWickett]

In MS Word, is there an easy way to make text wrap around an irregular image, like a portrait? Since the actual image file is itself rectangular, when I do word wrap, it wraps to the edge of the whitespace around the pic. I just want it to wrap the pic.

Now, I've managed to finagle my way around it by first having the main image be 'behind text,' but then creating a freedraw line that outlines the figure. I set that freedrawn image to have textwrap, then send it behind the main image, so it looks like the text is wrapping the image.

Does that make any sense?

 

[jmucchiello]

In MS Word, is there an easy way to make text wrap around an irregular image, like a portrait? Since the actual image file is itself rectangular, when I do word wrap, it wraps to the edge of the whitespace around the pic. I just want it to wrap the pic.

You can always make the image no wrap and then put a drawing object under the image that you want to wrap to.

OR

click on the picture and activate the pictures toolbar. Click the sun inside a square with the tooltip Text Wrapping. Click the last entry in that menu: Edit Wrap Points... Shape the wrapping to your hearts content.