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In this video tutorial I'm going to explain how the Runaround, Distribute, Snap, Gravity and Join features work when you're using images in Adobe FrameMaker 9. To force text around images you can use Runaround Properties. Content can be forced to run around a bounding box, the contour of a graphic, or not run around a graphic at all. Consider this sample image. When I place it over top of text the text flows right over top of it. It doesn't box itself or run around the contour around the image. By right mouse clicking a graphic and choosing Runaround Properties, or by going through the Graphics Menu and choosing Runaround Properties, the Runaround Properties tab displays. Currently this tab is configured so that the graphic has Don't Runaround set. I'm going to change that so that the graphic forces text to run around a bounding box and I'm going to give it a gap of 12 points. When I click Set the text is going to run around the bounding box of 12 points as a minimum and it surrounds the graphic without touching it and it doesn't matter if the graphic is placed between the frames or off to one side or the other. If you want the text to run more around the contour you can select Runaround Contour and click Set. It still has the 12 point gap but now the gap is based on the graphic and as I reposition or even resize the image that 12 points remains constant and the text always flows around the image. So, using the Runaround Properties allows you to define a Contour, a Bounding Box, or to set an image with No Runaround Properties at all. Based on those settings, the way your graphics and your text interact are going to be controlled. Let's look at another document. This document has four images, no text. I'm not going to use the Runaround Properties so I'm closing this tab and instead I'm going to choose Graphics and Distribute. We can see that the four images are set up on the page and by clicking and then Ctrl-clicking I can select more than one. Here I'm going to select these three graphics and set them up with horizontal spacing with an Edge Gap of a quarter of an inch. When I click Distribute the images jump toward the left and a gap of a quarter inch exists between the three graphics. So, a quarter inch from the first to the second graphic and another quarter inch from the second to the third image. I'm going to use Ctrl-Z to undo that and set them back to where they started. Depending on the images that you select and Ctrl-click to select others and depending on the settings in your Horizontal Spacing you can set up images so that they have, for example, equidistant centers, so that the left and the right images stay where they are and the middle images move so that from the middle of one image to the middle of another image, which in this case if you look in the bottom left of the screen is roughly two and a half inches, is exactly the same as here roughly about two and a half inches. I can also take images and select them and distribute them vertically rather than horizontally, so I'm going to leave the Horizontal Spacing as is and instead set the Vertical Spacing so that they have an Edge Gap of zero. When I click Distribute it'll pull the graphics very close to each other. As a matter of fact, this middle graphic touches both the graphic above it and the graphic below it because the Edge Gap was set to zero. I'm going to close my Distribute; select all my images and delete them; and instead look at how to create images and the functions of Snap, Gravity and Join. I'm going to open my Graphics Tools. When I create a line and then draw a second line it can be tricky to get the two points to line up perfectly with each other. These may look very close but they're not 100 percent dead-on touching. If I go in and I zoom in you'll be able to see that there's still a gap between them. I could choose Graphics and use a feature called Snap or Gravity. Let's start with Snap. Snap doesn't give me the freedom to create the lines in much the same way that I did the first time. I can't go in and draw a line that goes halfway between these two points. It snaps to an invisible Grid. But because there is a Grid, when I start drawing a second line it's going to force the end of it to jump right to the line that I created first and when I select the two of them by Ctrl-clicking, you can see the sizing. vanishes because these two images are touching each other. If I try the same with these I can't bring them to touch each other without forcing it to snap to the grid. I'll just Undo that, and instead I turn off the Snap. I'm going to go in under the Graphics Menu and turn on Gravity and what Gravity will do is take two shapes and pull them close to each other, so as soon as I near one of these points you'll see that it jumps to touch it, like so and that also appears here and as soon as they jump and touch because of the Gravity, I can Ctrl-click to select the two of them and once more Graphics and Join them into a single object. Because that one's treated as a single object and I'm going to Join this one and do the same, I can now resize, I can rotate them, I can move them around, or I can even delete them and treat them as a single object. So, in this video we've seen that Runaround Properties can be used to force text to flow around the contour of an image; we've seen the Distribute to spread out graphics; and we've seen the Snap and Gravity feature used when drawing graphics as a way to take images and snap the ends of them together or use Gravity to force them to touch each other when they get close. And finally, the Join feature to take two or more shapes and combine them and treat them as one object.