Floating text with mutliple Images

[Lemonsprig]

Hi all,

I am just wondering if you can float text around multiple Images. What i have is a text box with some text, in which I have placed an image to which I have applied text wrapping. This works as intended and I can modify the distance between the image and the text.

What I have now tried to do is add a second image alongside the first image. With the idea that the text should flow wrap around both images,  so in this case appear 3mm after the right edge of the second image, What appears to  be happening however is that the text only seems to be respecting the wrap settings of the first image. so I have distance of 3mm after the first image before the text starts, and then flows beneath the second image

In the diagram below Image 1 is the toolbar and image 2 is the box with the purple circle. There is a lot more text under the circle. I am just trying to understand if the text should respect both the image wrap settings of both images. or if I need to combine them into a single image for this to work.

Thanks 

 

 

 

[carl123]

Try this...

Remove Wrap settings from both images
Group the 2 images
Apply Wrap settings to the group

Use "Largest Side" as shown below

 

[Lemonsprig]

Carl, thanks for the help. I have just tried what you suggested and it still only appears to take into consideration the first image. Even though I have set the text wrapping of the both images to none. It's almost as though it is remembering the settings.

I have attached the file in the hope you can spot something I am missing.

weird.afpub

[carl123]

There is something a bit weird about the Clock1 (linked document)

Even if I delete all other images in the text frame, I can't get any text wrap settings to work with that image

Also, if I copy it to another new text frame, text wrap does not work on it

If I use the replace button to replace it with another image (or rasterise it) then everything works OK

Can you try deleting that image and then adding it again

 

If still not working please upload clock1.svg to the forum for further investigation

[Joachim_L]

Same observation here. carl123 is right, there is something weird about clock1.svg.

[Lemonsprig]

Thank you both so much. This was driving me crazy. Having completely deleted the image and then recreated it it is now working fine. Most strange however as it was only a snip using the windows snipping with a sroke around the rectangle applied in Affinity designer.

Thanks again for all the help.

[Lemonsprig]

Hi @Carl123  / @Joachim_L sorry to be a pain again, but I have ran into another issue trying to sort this one out and wonder if you can help. Having sorted the issue with the image, by re-creating it I have now grouped the entire element and applied text wrapping to that group so as to allow text in the main text frame to flow around the whole thing. However when I do this the rules for text wrapping inside the element are undone. as per the screenshot. 

If I take the text wrapping back off the main container group it returns to normal. Which leads me to believe that Publisher only honors text wrapping on the outermost group. Can someone clarify and suggest a way to achieve it so that the text is wrapped inside the group but also so that text wrapping is applied to the group itself.

Thanks.

 

 

[Joachim_L]

I think you want to assign to the outer group a text wrap to have other text wrapping around it? If yes, you have to assign the text wrap to the text frames inside the group and not assigning text wrap to the outer group. I hope this is understandable English?

[Lemonsprig]

Thank you that has done the trick. I wont even pretend to understand why it works on the text frame and not when applied to the group, but it is the result that counts. Thanks again for your help. I learn a little more with each problem solved.

[Joachim_L]

Glad it is solved for you. But I am curious why an outer text wrap is destroying the working text wrap inside a group. Anyone?

[Lemonsprig]

Just wanted to shed some more light on this. It looks like the some of these issues are caused by the image being a .svg. I was having some of similar issues with the next section. as shown in the screenshot 1 below. This is basically just two images placed over the text box with a 3mm text wrap on each side.

In the first screenshot only the right side of the text wrapping on the second image is being applied. However I re-exported the image as a .png did a replace document and re-applied the same settings and the text wrapping is now applied correctly as shown in the second screenshot, swapping back to the .svg image causes it to break again. Actual positioning left a mess for illustration purposes.

As it looks like this is a bug with the interaction between .SVG and text wrapping. I will create a new post on the bugs forum for the developers.