text wrap options greyed out

[Jamie Andreas]

Hi Folks, 

I love affinity publisher, but i keep having this problem. I place an image in a text box, and I go to wrap the text, and all the options are greyed out. The image does not move easily either, it keeps getting "stuck".

"ignore text wrap" is unchecked. 

Please see image........thanks very much!

[Hangman]

@Jamie Andreas, welcome to the forums...

A couple of things based on your screengrab...

1. You are attempting to wrap text around an image with very limited space to the left and right side of the image, at best you would only have a couple of characters per line were the text to wrap.
    
2. You don't have hyphenation turned on so your physical text wrap would be more limited by default.
    
3. You currently show a 0.07 inch Distance from Text setting on all four sides of the image which further reduces the likelihood of any text wrap.
    
4. On Mac, selecting any of the Text Wrap options places a blue border around the selection rather than 'highlighting' the option. I'm unsure if it is the same on Windows but I don't think the options are actually greyed out despite their appearance.

As a test, if you make you text columns wider (e.g., if you currently have a two column layout, expand the two columns across the whole page width, turn hyphenation on (though not essential for text wrap) and then select the Square text wrap and see if it works for you...

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Jamie Andreas said:

and all the options are greyed out.

I'm not convinced they are. Have you tried clicking on one of the Wrap Style options in the top row?

[Jamie Andreas]

Thanks Hangman and Walt. In this image, you can see I put the image in one wide text box. Here is the weird thing- wrapping still greyed out UNTIL I select the text box. Then, the wrapping options appear, but they don't work, the image does not wrap! 

This is very weird. I have wrapped other images in the same document. I am wondering if this is a bug. I did buy version 2, maybe I should install that and see what happens. 

[walt.farrell]

33 minutes ago, Jamie Andreas said:

the image does not wrap! 

Images don't wrap. Their wrap settings can force text under them to wrap.

And setting text wrap for a text frame would affect how other text wraps, if you put that frame over another frame. The wrap options are always applied to an object that will be over a text frame.

[Jamie Andreas]

It's something with the program. I created another doc, same program. put an image in text and hit wrap options, no problem. See image

[thomaso]

8 minutes ago, Jamie Andreas said:

It's something with the program. I created another doc, same program. put an image in text and hit wrap options, no problem. See image

Note in your two screenshots: at last the image is selected, before the text that should wrap (= flow around). It may confuse but "Wrap" must be activated for the object that should cause the wrapping, not to the object that should be wrapping (= flowing around sth).

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, Jamie Andreas said:

It's something with the program. I created another doc, same program. put an image in text and hit wrap options, no problem.

If you can share the misbehaving document, perhaps we can help figure it out.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

If you can share the misbehaving document, perhaps we can help figure it out.

Walt, as far I understand there is no misbehaving document. The according (last) screenshot appears rather to be meant to demonstrate that wrapping does work for the selected image ("no problem"), … whereas the previous screenshots either did not have wrapping activated or had it erroneously activated for the surrounding text frame, not for the image.

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, thomaso said:

as far I understand there is no misbehaving document. The according (last) screenshot appears rather to be meant to demonstrate that wrapping does work for the selected image ("no problem"),

As I read it, the original document misbehaves, but a new document works as we expect.

Perhaps Jamie will clarify which they meant.

[thomaso]

35 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

As I read it,

Ah, @Jamie Andreas's hint "It's something with the program." sounds unclear indeed.