Working with Frames / Frame Text Wrap pt. 2
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Let's look at some of the other options we have up here. The next option here is Wrap Around Object Shape, which I'm going to deal with individually. The next option is Jump Object, so if I click on that it forces it to jump around the object, so it doesn't matter whether it's left or right, it's just going to not allow any text in there. Now in this case it doesn't make a lot of sense but if I had this selected with the Text Frame Options and chose 3 Columns like this, then, let me make sure this is in a column, you can see how the photograph, that jump makes a lot of sense. You wouldn't really want text wrapping in a very small space like this. The next option is, it just stops it in that column, again, if you had something down at the bottom here you may not want the text to continue flowing after it, you'd want it to end and go to the next page or next column, that's the option you use there. Let me move this one over to the side here and I'm going to get this other object here which is irregular, and we'll look at some of the options for it. If I select it we can come over and choose this middle option here, which is Wrap Around Object Shape. In this case it automatically guesses the edges but it's doing it based on these contour options. This object has a Clipping Path, which we looked at a little bit earlier, so it's using it, that makes sense. Your other options are the Bounding Box, and that's just the edges of the images. It can guess the image so if you have a white background, for example, and you see the object, it'll guess the edges off it. Sometimes it's accurate, sometimes it's not. If you have a Photoshop path or a graphic frame it can edit around those. So, in most cases it makes a pretty good guess of it, but you're going to have to do some editing. So, let me just zoom in on it and look at it. Now, we can see how it is offset, and it's a little tight to the object as it was before but we can change that by coming up here, we only have one option because the sides are not all even, so whatever the offset is here, it's doing it from the edges. If I got my Direct Select Tool and click on it like that, you can see this blue line is the offset. I'll move it down, you'll see it move in like that, move up, and there's the offset. Let me select it and move it out a little bit here, like this, and I'm going to select this frame, Text Frame Options, take it down to just a single column like that. Now, if you wanted it to sit like this but you didn't like this here, for obvious reasons, again select the Direct Select Tool, and I'm going to have to zoom in to do this properly, and you can just move the points across like this so that the text just wraps away from it like that. In this particular case I could come down here and just say Wrap to the Right Side, but I'm just showing you how to do this because can be useful for certain instances, and there, Control or Command zero to zoom out, and we can see that the text wrap looks pretty good there. So you can play around with some of these Text Wrap options, but a very powerful tool, and it is relatively simple to use.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe InDesign CS4 |
| Author: | Brian White |
| SKU: | 33978 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-36-X |
| Release Date: | 2009-03-31 |
| Duration: | 16.5 hrs / 222 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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