Picture boxes flowing with text

[tschris]

I have searched the help and have just purchased a third party Quark book and have searched high and low for a way to have my photos flow with my text.

The photos are 1/8 to 1/4 page with one to four per page. I read about anchoring and it didn't seem like that was the right solution.

The problem is I often go back in my document and add photos in the early pages and then all photos that appear later are out of sync. This seams like a simple feature. If Quark can't do it is there an Xtension that will?

 

[hoyleyboyley]

draw out your picture box with the cross hair tool. copy.

select the cursor tool, and select where in text you want the image to go.

paste.

image is now interlocked with text, and will flow as such.

hope it helps

 

[tschris]

Thank you for your response.

Is the solution that you provided for large images too, I have only used it for small images?

The copy / paste solution gives me limited wrapping and runaround options.

It looks this x=photo, o=text

xxxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx ooooooo
ooooooooooooo

What I am looking for is:

xxxxx oooooo
xxxxx oooooo
xxxxx oooooo
xxxxx oooooo
oooooooooooo

 

[sharkboots]

Looks like you want to align the box to text-ascent rather than text-baseline, there is a button on the measurements palette. I find embedded text and picture boxes behave erratically and you need to be careful with leading, locking to baseline grid, and runarounds. Applying negative runarounds can be a useful ploy.

 

[tschris]

You mention "I find embedded text and picture boxes behave erratically and you need to be careful with leading, locking to baseline grid, and runarounds", my experience is the same.

Do you just manually move all of your picture boxes when inserting text or graphics in the first part of your document?

Trying to move picture boxes manually to match up with the text they need to be close to is a tedious task with a large document so I have broken it up into chapter to help.

This seems like it would be a problem for everybody, but due to the lack of posts on the subject I guess I am the only one wanting to flow picture boxs with the text they need to be next to.

 

[sharkboots]

Though it can be painful working with embedded boxes, it is even more painful to move every pic in your document when you make a text correction. And (please consider this a warning if it hasn't already happened to you) it can be more painful still dealing with corrupted chapters.

I use embedded boxes when the pros outweigh the cons (which is quite often for me) and suggest you persevere. Watch out for a bug I often experience where embedded boxes disappear when they needs to wrap to the next page. I seem to recall this only happens when using auto-leading.