APub 2.5 on mac won't text wrap place AP or a png

[kat]

APub 2.5 on mac won't text wrap Placed AP/.

Using a png I can access the outline, but can't select a text wrap option in panel with Place or Png.

Help please. I looked text wrap up in Help and APub Manuel. I watched the Affinity how to tutorial.

[Brian_J]

Hey @kat, can you attach a screenshot of the entire APub window that shows the image in the Layers panel (and select the image layer) and the Text Wrap Settings dialog.

[kat]

Just added to post above yours, @Brian_J

[Brian_J]

1 hour ago, kat said:

Using a png I can access the outline, but can't select a text wrap option in panel with Place or Png.

Where is the curves outline of the teddybear coming from? None of the layers in your screenshot are selected, so I can’t tell where the curves outline is coming from or what the text wrap is being applied to.

Its also helpful if you can provide a screenshot showing your entire screen and the entire APub window. 

[kat]

I have bear heart.png layer selected and click "Edit wrap outline."  Outline toggles on and off.

With Text Wrap on I have Wrap Style > Tight and Wrap To > Both Sides. There are barely visible blue outlines around settings. Setting Distance from Text does nothing.

 

[kat]

In AD I place the bear heart. png and created a text frame of filler text, then copy pasted them into Apub. Text wrap works perfect on the new png & text fame. But still doesn't work with the old png & text fame. 

What's going on?

[lacerto]

Have you ensured that the original text frame ("RELIVE was founded to...") truly does not have "Ignore Text Wraps" inadvertently checked (your screenshot does not have the text frame selected so it does not directly show it). If it does not, try to toggle on and off this setting to see if it fixes the issue. Sometimes these kinds of settings just do not "take".

 

[Alfred]

6 hours ago, kat said:

There are barely visible blue outlines around settings.

*bearly visible

4 hours ago, kat said:

In AD I place the bear heart. png and created a text frame of filler text, then copy pasted them into Apub.

Why start in AD instead of doing the entire thing in APub?

[walt.farrell]

13 hours ago, kat said:

With Text Wrap on I have Wrap Style > Tight and Wrap To > Both Sides. There are barely visible blue outlines around settings. Setting Distance from Text does nothing.

I'm finding your screenshot a bit confusing because

1. It's showing the wrap outline for the bear, and Text Wrap settings, but the bear layer is not selected in the Layers panel.
   and
2. It shows the Text Frame panel (with Ignore Text Wraps set, which could be your problem), but again you don't have the Text Frame selected in the Layers panel.
   

Without having the relevant layer selected in the Layers panel, the outline in #1 should not show at all. And in #2 we really don't know how that text frame should behave, but it is suspicious that what you showed as the Ignore Text Wraps set.

 

[Alfred]

8 hours ago, Alfred said:

*bearly visible

 

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

It shows the Text Frame panel (with Ignore Text Wraps set, which could be your problem)

That ‘Ignore Text Wraps’ check mark is also ‘bearly’ visible. 👎

[kat]

Righto. Ignore Text Wrap hidden in Menu Text was on for not wrapping text. Part of the solution was to change interface to lite, so I can see text wrap light blue options. My guess is that the color blind can't see blue.

Screenshot 1. Why does large Bear and text pasted from AD, showing Text Wrap NONE, wraps fine?

Screenshot 2. Why does text wrapping to upper layer hidden large Bear instead of visible layer small bear with no Text Wrap settings.

[Alfred]

29 minutes ago, kat said:

My guess is that the color blind can't see blue.

There are at least three main types of colourblindness. Those who suffer from the most common type can’t distinguish between red and green, but blue looks different in some way.

[Alfred]

45 minutes ago, kat said:

Screenshot 1. Why does large Bear and text pasted from AD, showing Text Wrap NONE, wraps fine?

That screenshot shows the Text Wrap settings for the text, not the Text Wrap settings for the picture.

45 minutes ago, kat said:

Screenshot 2. Why does text wrapping to upper layer hidden large Bear instead of visible layer small bear with no Text Wrap settings.

I’m afraid I don’t understand the question. Perhaps you could rephrase it.

[kat]

I figure if I can't see the wrap option blue outline with a dark interface on a decent mac with a good monitor, a lot of people will also have an issue. 1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency. About 8% of men and 0.4% of women in the US.

I used to check all my designs in Adobe Illustrator's color blind views.

Color blindness can be brutal on designing.

 

[kat]

18 minutes ago, Alfred said:

That screenshot shows the Text Wrap settings for the text, not the Text Wrap settings for the picture.

I’m afraid I don’t understand the question. Perhaps you could rephrase it.

Does Text wrap go on the image and affect all text? Or do you need to select both the image and the text and apply settings?

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, kat said:

1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency. About 8% of men and 0.4% of women in the US.

The examples that you posted only cover protanopia (reduced sensitivity to red light) and deuteranopia (reduced sensitivity to green light). The third type is tritanopia: people affected by this type of colourblindness not only confuse blue with green but also confuse yellow with violet.

[Alfred]

4 minutes ago, kat said:

Does Text wrap go on the image and affect all text? Or do you need to select both the image and the text and apply settings?

You need to apply the settings to the image so that the app knows how you want the text to be wrapped around it.

[kat]

So you only apply text wrap options to image. Will this affect all text on the page that comes into contact with the image, unless text has ignore wrap set?

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, kat said:

So you only apply text wrap options to image. 

You apply the Text Wrap settings to whatever you want the text to wrap around. That could be an image, as in your case, but equally it could be a shape, or even another Text Frame.

7 minutes ago, kat said:

Will this affect all text on the page that comes into contact with the image, unless text has ignore wrap set?

It would certainly affect text that is below the image in the Layers panel. Offhand I'm not sure if it would affect text that's above the image in the Layers panel, if you have any. And I can't test that right now.

[Oufti]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Offhand I'm not sure if it would affect text that's above the image in the Layers panel […] And I can't test that right now.

Yes, it does.
Wrapping options affect text layers above the wrapped image as well as layers below it.