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057 Text wrapping - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
057 Text wrapping
You may know already how to create a text wrap, but did you know that you can edit that wrap? Yes, it's a technique discovered only by a few intrepid designers. We are looking at a two-page spread in InDesign CS6, though this technique is really not specific to CS6. It can be done in basically any version of InDesign as far as I know. I'm going to switch back to normal editing mode so you can see all the frames and what's happening here. This is a nice looking spread I think, but we want to add a little bit more interest and so what I'd like to do is to wrap this text against the student's legs here. Now this will only work if the picture has any kind of mask over here, and if I select this picture and go and right-click and choose Edit Original, and I had it open already, it didn't open that fast, and you can see that there definitely is masks already. Here is the Layers panel. So somebody has already gone to the trouble of selecting the white area or whatever was around the young…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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