text flow around image

[JamesCanning]

Hi,

I'd like to ask if Affinity Publisher has a way to make text flow around an image?

James

[Patrick Connor]

Yes it's called text wrapping, you apply it to the image

[JamesCanning]

Thanks, Patrick.

It doesn't do anything for me, though. Does it make any difference if it's artistic text or regular text? Fancy vs regular fonts??

James

[mac_heibu]

Why don’t you try it by yourself?

Text wrap with artistic text doesn’t make any sense, because artistic text has no automatic line break.

Standard text of course wraps fine.

The most problems, new users have: You have to assign wrapping to the wrapped element, not to the wrapping one:

 

[MEB]

Hi JamesCanning,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Yes, it only works with Text frames. To do this you have to select the image/object, click the Show Text Wrap Settings in the main toolbar and select the Wrap Style you want on the top of the panel.  If you now move the image over a text frame the text should wrap around it.

[JamesCanning]

Guys,

Thanks for the help. I did try it myself, it works fine with "standard" text in a "standard" text box. I'm making a card with a fancy font, Nautilus Pompilius, in green. I have a small piccy in front of it, and the piccy is selected, and text wrap doesn't do anything. I'll keep trying of course.

Well hell, I just tried it in a separate document in the way I said I was using, and it works fine. I seem to have found one of the situations where it doesn't work. :-(

James

[JamesCanning]

One more thing. I started the document all over again, avoiding all the resizing and moving and editing. Text wrap worked as it should have. Sometimes a badly overworked project may not respond as it should. Think so?! :-)