From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
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Auto-leading and inline graphics - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
Auto-leading and inline graphics
- [Voiceover] In the previous movie I was talking about auto-leading, and I suggested that you should never use it. I'm now going to contradict myself, because there is one occasion when using auto-leading is actually a very good idea, and that is when you're working with inline graphics. By inline graphics, I mean pictures that have been cut and pasted or dragged into the text flow, so that if you select a text frame, and you move the text frame, the images move with it. If you edit the text, the pictures will move along with the text. So that's the way it's set up in the column on the left. In the column on the right, it looks more or less the same, but this is just achieved by adding a text wrap to the images. It's a very fragile set up, and very easily disturbed. All I need to do is move the text frame slightly and the whole thing comes collapsing down like a house of cards. So how do we create this inline graphic situation? Well what I'm going to do is using the example on the…
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