![]() This option is not in Preferences, but rather is a Layer Optiondouble click any layer name to bring up its Layer Options. Suppressing Text Wrap When Layer is Hidden. This way you can put your text on the topmost layer and avoid any potential printing problems. (See Chapter 15: "Setting Up your Document") Rather than use this approach, if you don't want a text frame to get pushed around by a text wrap, choose Object > Text Frame Options and turn on Ignore Text Wrap (see below). This is a bad idea, because putting your pictures on the topmost layers can result in printing problems due to transparent objects that overlap type. Text Wrap Affects Only Text Beneath makes InDesign behave like Quark, where text wrapsor Runarounds as they are called in Quark landaffect only the text beneath them in the stacking order. Rather than turn this preference on, you're better off using a baseline grid to get the same effect (see Chapter 16 "Everything in Its Right Place: Using Grids."). For some reason this does not work if the wrap object is at the top of the column. When working with multiple columns of text, if you have a text wrap that affects some but not all of those columns, this preference ensures that the text below the wrap object is knocked down to the next available leading increment, making sure that your baselines align across columns. In my humble opinion it's not worth much, because you shouldn't be using ragged type with text wraps, and you certainly shouldn't be wrapping text around all sides of an object in a single column. Note, this preference will not justify ragged type when the wrap object straddles more than one column. Justify Text Next to an Object will justify text next to wrap objects that are placed in a single column. It’s so helpful! But at least now you know a small free script can do it for you.The following preferences determine how your text wrap behaves: Personally, I really wish this feature were built into InDesign. But you can jump back by switching to the Selection tool again and choosing Layout > Go Back. Note that it usually puts the text cursor in the final frame of the story, which is annoying (because in a multi-page document, you suddenly jump to the end of the story). Then just tell it if you want to split before or after the selected frame, click OK, and it does its magic: So here’s how it works: You just select any frame in the thread, and then you double-click the storysplitter script and it opens this dialog box: ( Learn about how to install scripts here.) To do that, I use a script called StorySplitter, which I think Adi Ravid wrote back in 2006. I want to select a frame, run a script, and tell the script to break the thread before or after the selected frame. That is, if you select a frame in the middle of a story and run the script, it makes the thread bypass that frame… but the text that was in the frame remains.īut I usually want something different from either of these scripts. There’s also another script in the Scripts panel called BreakFrame, which removes a single frame from a thread. That is, each frame is unlinked from all the others and all the text stays where it is. What if I want to break the thread, but keep the text inside the frames? That’s possible, but you have to use a free script to do it.Īctually, you already have a script inside InDesign’s Scripts panel called SplitStory, which is pretty cool, but it splits all the frames. And more importantly, the text just disappears from all the subsequent frames, too. But that just breaks the chain at that point. Yes, it’s easy to break two threaded frames apart you just use the Selection tool to click on an in port or an out port on a text frame, and then click on the frame itself (see below). ![]() That’s because in InDesign “linking” is something else: it means linking to a document on disk, like the linked images that show up in the Links panel.) Unthreading Frames (By the way, you’ll notice that I call this text “threading” rather than text linking. But unthreading frames… well, that’s a different story. It’s easy to thread frames together in InDesign, so that the text story goes from one frame to the next, right? And you can see where the threads are by choosing View > Show Extras > Show Text Threads.
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