Maintaining text wrapping with an svg image.

[MCBPub]

Build 1736.

I have a chapter with an svg image on the final page. This image is grouped with a text frame which provides the caption. There is also some accompanying text on the main frame of the page. At the moment, whenever I save the page, close and then come back to it, most of the text (which flows from the previous page and more or less fills this final page, less the image) disappears. Sometimes completely, but more recently I am left with a couple of sentences at the bottom of the page. If I wiggle the group up and down a bit, the text reappears, appropriately wrapped, but then the image + caption group has to be repositioned. I have tried adding a page, rebuilding the final page and then deleting the old final page, to no avail. Previously when I have tried to produce a pdf export of the whole book, this last page of this chapter is similarly missing most of its text, which is the more serious problem in terms of getting this book finalised and published. I also tried pinning the image and caption to the text, to see if that might help, it did not. I had the same problem with build 1732 and it has not gone away with the new release.

The svg image was produced using the latest customer release of Designer 2 (not the beta).

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Edited April 3, 2023 by MCBPub
Added screenshot of the pdf export.

[Jon P]

Thanks for the report.

The wrap outline seems to be being saved in an odd position, if after loading the file you edit the wrap outline you can see it's off the spread. Moving it back into position will also fix the issue until next save.

I've reproduced this and logged it

[MCBPub]

Thanks. I have attached a screenshot (to my original post) showing my latest pdf export. The left hand page is missing almost all of its text, only the first line has flowed to the bottom of the page.

[Old Bruce]

I opened the SVG in Designer and changed the Gradient fills from the A610 to solid. A basic For Export preset loads fine. And ... Do you really need to pin the SVG to the text flow?

One other thing is that every one of the Master Pages has an errant Text Frame on it.

[MCBPub]

Thanks Old Bruce, I will investigate the errant text frames. Not sure where the first one came from - it looks like it then got copied when I developed the other Masters, based on the first. The pinning was a desperate attempt to sort the problem - it didn't work! As you say, not needed.

Thanks for taking the time!

[MCBPub]

Hello again, Old Bruce, I did not immediately pick up the relevance of your removal of the gradient fills. However, I eventually twigged that doing that might have sorted the issue! I decided to export the image as a jpg instead, so that I could retain the gradient fills, but it got rid of the svg gradient element and lo! Problem sorted for now. I think I have a book ready for final proof reading, that was the final issue. Many thanks for your help!