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Hey, thanks, especially for the manual which looks like a great resource. There's something similar on the official site, which I always get linked to when I Google an Affinity question, but it seems to be for 1.x so it's really hit and miss whether it's helpful. That pdf looks like it'll be my go-to for a while. I'm having one really odd problem I'm wondering if you can help with. I skimmed the material on text frames in your book and didn't find an answer. For some text frames in the aforementioned imported documents - not the ones with the main text or sidebars, thankfully, but some that contain nothing but a table I want in a specific place, as well as the ones on my master pages with the page number and running headers - there actually seem to be two text frames, one on top of the other. I can move and otherwise make changes to the "top" frame with no problems - contents move with the frame and so on, which sometimes is more than I can say for their Indesign equivalents. The "bottom" ones, on the other hand, seem impossible to interact with. I can't even select them, or I sort of can but it doesn't work as expected - for example the controls in the corners are "x"s rather than circles and nothing happens when I try to drag them, and things like the numbers in the Transform box are greyed out. I thought they might just be on a different layer (though that's not how they were set up in Indesign), but insofar as I can decipher the Layers panel - it is not intuitive! - that doesn't seem to be the case. I've tried expanding and clicking on everything there is to expand and click on under Layers and nothing there lets me interact with these "ghost frames" as I've come to call them. Mostly the ghost frames are only a minor visual annoyance, but there is one actual problem with them - text in other frames will sometimes "shy away" from them as though the ghost frame had text wrap settings telling it to keep other text a certain distance away. In a small number of places, this results in lines breaking in the middle rather than the end, and similar unwanted behaviour. Any solution to this? I hope I've explained this well enough - it's a weird problem I wasn't sure I could even articulate at first. If I haven't perhaps I can provide screenshots illustrating what I mean, though not tonight.

The latest version of the help system is available on the website and can be found through Google. But the v1 help is still online for those who need it and Google will often show you v1 at the top of its results. If the URL includes "publisher" it's v1, if it includes "publisher2" it's v2. You can find the correct help pages at this URL: https://affinity.help Check out pages 22 and 42 (pages 30 and 50 of the PDF) of the 2.4 edition of the manual. Frames with X handles are on the master page and aren't editable on a document page. You draw a text frame on a master page so that the document pages based on it will have an automatic frame for your text. You can add text to it but you can't move or resize it. Picture frames work in a similar manner. It sounds like you've been creating frames on both the master and document page. If you don't recall doing this, the frames on the document page were likely created with AutoFlow which can create frames on document pages on top of the master frames if you haven't set up your document correctly. I don't recall the steps that can lead to that but I know it happens from time to time. That shouldn't happen unless the master frame does have text wrap applied, but now that you know how to edit those master frames you could check their settings. In any case, you should either move all of your text to the master frames or delete the master frames and use the ones on the document pages. Just ensure you haven't linked a master page frame from one page to a document page frame on another page before you start deleting frames. Good luck!

Sorry, I should have clarified - the page header ones are indeed on the master page, but the problem I described happens precisely when I try to edit them on the master page. I'm well aware that that's where I need to be working on them. The documents were, again, not created in Affinity, they were created in Indesign, exported to IDML, and imported into Affinity. If there's any text wrap or autoflow set up, the software did it, not me (though I see no sign of the latter, at least). And I can't undo it because I can't select these boxes, even on the master page.

The problem is the use of Split Notes and Text Wrap together as I was thinking but I was looking at the wrong picture. The bottom picture is irrelevant, it's the top one. In fact, footnote 26 is irrelevant, too, it's just footnote 25 and the top picture's text wrap. To work around this bug, I recommend turning off text wrap on the top picture. Choose Layer > Master Page > Edit Detached and then drag the text frame's top middle handle so that its top is below the picture. Click Finish when you're done. This will avoid the use of text wrap which triggers the bug and will avoid overlapping the picture with text. I tried that and it worked well. Good luck, and I hope you don't have too many other pages like this!

Do you have text wrap turned on for the image? I think there is a known bug with text wrap and footnotes where changing the text wrap Distance From Text values can cause the footnote position to jump dramatically. If you have it on, play around with the Distance values to see if you can nudge it back into place. If text wrap is off, I would have thought it was Flow Options but the settings look fine, at least for the Article Text style. Perhaps take a screenshot of the Flow Options for the footnote text style?

Can you share a screenshot of the text wrap settings and does turning off text wrap on the image also fix it? If turning off text wrap doesn't fix it then I'll need to see the file and will send you an address.

Crazy time. At your suggestion I opened the Text Wrap box, and clicked (on a whim 'Jump') and the problem disappeared. Surreal. I never had a picture there in the book, never used the Text Wrap in that particular chapter. But clicking 'Jump' got rid of the problem. Whatever the problem was. I didn't think one could make a Text Wrap if there was nothing there for the text to wrap around. Thank you for hanging in there Old Bruce, it's working now. And I will remember this if I see any more blanks mysteriously appearing. Ben

I am trying to flow text around a photo but can't find the Text Wrap feature. Where is it hiding?

Some more tests. Try turning text wrap off for the image (or deleting it image entirely) and not just moving it to the right side. There's an outside chance that the text wrap is still impacting the flow. It shouldn't but does this make a difference? Put it back to the way it was or close the document and open it again. Delete the last line of footnote 26. Does it fit now? Delete another line of footnote 26, does it fit? Repeat until it fits and let me know when it fits. Open the document again and delete a line of text at a time from the continued footnote 25. When does it fit? I have a couple of theories about what the bug is and these tests could narrow it down. Or just send me the document and I'll test it and figure it out. If you're able to share the document publicly here that would be great. If you're able to send it to me privately, I'll message you with an email address. I don't need to see the full document, just from the start of this story (the linked series of frames) up to the end of this page. I don't need any linked images if they're linked, the low res previews are sufficient for a text flow test.

Here are two screen captures of a demo newsletter I am working on. The one on the left is in working mode (guideliens showing), on the right is in preview mode. I'm using generated pseud-Latin Lorem Ipsem text for my sample. That causes the spellchecker to flag almost every word (the red underlining). You can see that the image does not force the text in the rightmost column below it like it does in the middle column. An entire paragraph is hidden by the image but it should all be forced below it. The text in the article is linked to flow/continue on page 2, by the way. There's also a small cutline below the image with a frame and wrap to push the article text away further. Again, it doesn't seem to affect the rightmost colum. Is this a bug? If not, how do I correct it?

Hi, As you can see on my the screenshot called Conscrit1814, I have a 2-column text and 2 images. The one on the right is a squared JPEG image and I apply a tight wrapping around it and it is ok. On the left image which is a transparent PNG (see second screenshot called PNG file) I also apply a tight wrapping and I was expecting that the text will flow following the curves of the bronze statue but it doesn't and I'm puzzled. It seems that the image is not considered as a transparent PNG but a plain JPEG and the text wraps around the image square... What is wrong ? Can you help me ? Thanks in advance. Frank

For clarity, this question refers to word wrap (text auto-breaking to the next line inside a text frame) and not text wrap (text flowing around an object). I have a document where I am making text frames. The text frames, for some reason, suddenly do not support word wrapping (even when I use filler text I get multiple long lines that flow outside the text frame). I think word wrap has been disabled somehow but I don't know how. I've disabled all paragraph styles and I can't seem to make it work. This is a pretty crucial feature! Can anyone tell me how to re-enable word wrap? Thanks for any tips! EDIT: Solved it! In the Character panel, under Positioning and Transform, the No Break tick box was checked. Untick it, restore word wrap!

Deb, note that: Text wrap can be applied to individual objects and to groups If you ungroup a group you lose the text wrap applied to the group If you group objects their individual text wrap settings will not be lost but they will be overruled by the group's text wrap settings. This point can be difficult to see if the individual objects and the group have similar text wrap settings but if you do a test with two ellipses, one of which has Text Wrap set to Square, the other to None, and then group them and set Text Wrap to Tight you'll see what I mean. Good luck

The criss crossed text flow makes me think that you have the text frames doubled. I would look in the flow options. Select the text from a couple of paragraphs before the weird break all the way to the middle of the next page. Use the Paragraph panel to override the Flow options to Off and Start Anywhere. Use the Text Frame Panel to look for differences between the two text frames. Again, I would look for something on the page that has a Text Wrap applied to it. Use the Layers panel, there should only be two text frames in the layers panel.

BTW while this other footnote + text wrap spacing bug isn't directly related, it might be good to group them. And also FYI for @Hussard64 because in general Tight wrapping seems to work better than Square right now, although it won't fix your issue. Tight and Square do the same thing for rectangular shapes so you might as well use Tight.

While the forum is mainly used to report + discuss issues, the large range of existing tutorials may be a shorter and smarter way to learn or understand basics of typography, typesetting and object styling. Also, trying / experimenting with the various tools & menu commands together with the Help articles may shed light more directly on certain workflows than the forum may do. A forum search for "text" limits the displayed threads quite well to topics regarding "typesetting" (which is a rather seldom keyword). Nevertheless, not all threads offer solutions or workarounds and thread titles may be misleading, in particular if a reader has a certain feature or workflow in mind while a previous thread creator had no idea of the related terms when creating the thread, e.g. "The text is invisible" if another object got Text Wrap activated or "Page 10 doesn't show a page number" if its frame is too small, etc. Also the thread history demonstrates that existing threads, tutorials and help files often don't get read (or searched or found) before a thread is started, even for simple, well known tasks/solutions, which results in multiple threads for identical issues, e.g. "Text size changed" caused by dragging the outer frame handle… / "Paragraph leading does not work" caused by leading override or baseline grid… / "White is not white but yellowish" for confused colour profile settings… / "Text does not export as black" if K only is expected but not set or exported accordingly, etc. For such reasons of ambiguity, a further forum split could not be able to result in the wanted ability just "to scroll through all typsesetting issues and seeing how those issues are solved" or to discover effectively "how to best get rid of orphans, widows and runts" (btw., these keywords are seldom, too).

I'll send you an email address to send the file since my text wrap theory didn't pan out.

Here is the image text wrap option When I turn it off, the gap is not filled.

Hi @nomaditerranean and another warm welcome to the forums, Just to add to @GarryP and @Return's replies... A quick visual representation showing a simple text frame with text added and text wrap applied to the graphic with text offset values... Text Wrap.mp4

Most emphatically no. I would make a text frame for the caption and group it with the photo and then apply the text wrap to the group.

@benged123, Could be you have something on the Page that has Text Wrap applied. Look in your Layers panel. And an aside "Low and behold" should be "Lo and behold". Without my emphasis/italic of course.

I have a text frame in Publisher and have placed a vector graphic from Designer. The graphic is smaller than the artboard in Designer. I've used Publisher's Vector Crop tool to reduce the size of the box the graphic is in. In Publisher, when I apply a text wrap to the placed graphic, the text wrap is applied to the artboard from Designer, not the size of the art box in Publisher. The enclosed screen shots show the issue. Can a text wrap not apply to the cropped box instead of the artboard? Thanks.

If the image is pinned inline, the image will be on the text's baseline and the second line of text will be below the image. Text Wrap won't make a difference. If you want to have multiple lines of text to the right of the image, and for the text to start at the top of the column, pin the image with Float instead of Inline. Then you can use Text Wrap. Good luck

To me its seems a Decoration is simply ignored by Text Wrap, while the Text of the Paragraph Style is affected as expected. For Text Wrap, I would expect it to affect all attributes of a paragraph style and not exclude any of them. (compare: hyphenation + right indents) Nevertheless, this issue has been reported as bug years ago … but apparently got moved by a moderator to the Feature Requests.

Hi Old Bruce, I opened your document. I see we go from 'Text Wrap' to 'Broken Link'. I Google Affinity Publisher 'Broken Link' and get all kinds of unrelated stuff. Excuse my slowness. Are you saying 'create a broken link to the next bunch of text'? And then how do we go back to 'text wrap' after the pics? Or am I not getting this? Right now where I have a picture on a single page I want to keep otherwise blank I've done the 'Return return return' to move the text to the next page. I AM applying your other direction (adding spacing) where the pics are stacked in between wrapped text -- working perfectly.