William Cartwright Posted December 15, 2019 Posted December 15, 2019 I'm doing a report and loving the text wrap feature in Publisher for the main body text. However, I need to add descriptions under the artworks I'm using. This is separate from the body text. The "text wrap" feature is presenting me from putting any sub-text where I need it. Is there an easy way to override the text wrap for this descriptive sub-text. Thanks for any ideas! Bill Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 15, 2019 Posted December 15, 2019 There's an option to ignore text wrap in the Text Frame studio panel that might help. William Cartwright 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
William Cartwright Posted December 15, 2019 Author Posted December 15, 2019 10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: There's an option to ignore text wrap in the Text Frame studio panel that might help. I'm not sure where that is or how to access it. This will turn off the text wrap for one (or more) text blocks while leaving the body text to wrap? I appreciate any clues of how to use this tool. Bill Quote
William Cartwright Posted December 15, 2019 Author Posted December 15, 2019 I can't figure it out. Quote
GarryP Posted December 15, 2019 Posted December 15, 2019 William, I think this is what you need. If I'm wrong, please attach a visual sample of what you want. ignore-text-wrap.afpub William Cartwright 1 Quote
William Cartwright Posted December 15, 2019 Author Posted December 15, 2019 Hi @GarryP, thanks for reaching out. I'm posting an image that shows (more or less) what I want (I will have more detail than "Picture on the back of a horse," but it makes the point. One problem I have is I don't see how to activate the "Text Frame" panel. I assumed it would "turn on" by View>Studio>Text Frame. However, I'm not seeing Text Frame as an option. I appreciate any help. I'm working on a deadline--must finish tomorrow. It is 3:17 am here and I barely got sleep last night, so I'm off to grab a couple of hours of sleep. I'll check back in later. Thank you! Bill Quote
R C-R Posted December 15, 2019 Posted December 15, 2019 17 minutes ago, William Cartwright said: One problem I have is I don't see how to activate the "Text Frame" panel. I assumed it would "turn on" by View>Studio>Text Frame. However, I'm not seeing Text Frame as an option. It is possible this panel is in a Studio tab group, & if the Studio panel is too narrow to show the full names of unselected tabs, its name will be abbreviated to "Frm" unless/until it is selected. If you can't find it there, is it possible you sometimes use or have used more than one monitor? If so, it may be trying to appear on the second monitor's screen even when it is not connected to your computer. William Cartwright 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
walt.farrell Posted December 15, 2019 Posted December 15, 2019 26 minutes ago, William Cartwright said: I assumed it would "turn on" by View>Studio>Text Frame. However, I'm not seeing Text Frame as an option. I appreciate any help. I'm working on a deadline--must finish tomorrow It does activate that way, William. As R C-R said the title may be abbreviated. But you would still see it in View > Studio. Are you sure that (a) you're in Publisher, and (b) you're in the Publisher Persona of Publisher? The studio panels are specific to the Persona that is active. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
GarryP Posted December 15, 2019 Posted December 15, 2019 As far as I can tell, to do it the way you want (or how I have understood it) it you don’t need to ignore the text wrapping, so you don’t need the Text Frame Panel in this case. Just put the image and text frame in a group and add the text wrap to the group (see attached image and GIF). jmwellborn and William Cartwright 2 Quote
jmwellborn Posted December 15, 2019 Posted December 15, 2019 @William Cartwright Use @GarryP‘s solution. It is the correct one. I have done several books now with hundreds of images with captions, using this method. Works perfectly. Be sure that before grouping, the caption’s text frame is the same horizontal width as the image’s frame. Merry Christmas! William Cartwright 1 Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.5.5. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards.
William Cartwright Posted December 15, 2019 Author Posted December 15, 2019 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: It does activate that way, William. As R C-R said the title may be abbreviated. But you would still see it in View > Studio. Are you sure that (a) you're in Publisher, and (b) you're in the Publisher Persona of Publisher? The studio panels are specific to the Persona that is active. Ah! You asked the right question, Walt. I was NOT in the Publisher persona when I was checking the Studio selections. Thank you so much!!! You've really saved me. A quick test and this appear to be working. I "overslept" a little, but this fix more than compensates for the time. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!! Bill walt.farrell 1 Quote
William Cartwright Posted December 15, 2019 Author Posted December 15, 2019 4 hours ago, GarryP said: As far as I can tell, to do it the way you want (or how I have understood it) it you don’t need to ignore the text wrapping, so you don’t need the Text Frame Panel in this case. Just put the image and text frame in a group and add the text wrap to the group (see attached image and GIF). Great to Have another option GarryP! This is my first time using Publisher on a project--always a great idea to use a new tool under deadline--and it is cool. But this one little snag was messing up completion of the report. It is awesome to have fellow Affinity users who help out people in a jam, like me. I really appreciate it! Bill Quote
GarryP Posted December 16, 2019 Posted December 16, 2019 You’re welcome. Glad to be of assistance. William Cartwright 1 Quote
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