Design Center Tutorial
Anchor objects to text in InDesign
John Cruise
Kelly Kordes Anton
www.adobepress.com
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If you have pictures or other graphic elements in your Adobe® InDesign® CS2 document that need to flow with related text, you can anchor the objects in the text. This prevents you from having to manually reposition objects such as charts, sidebars, or graphics every time text reflows. Any type of object can be anchored in text, including text frames, picture frames, paths, and tables. When you anchor objects, you can position them inline with text, above text, or in a custom position such as out in the margin (Figure 1). You have precise control over object position, including the ability to fine-tune placement with the mouse.
Figure 1: Anchored objects flow with text. An Inline object (left) is positioned at the baseline of text at the text insertion point; an Above Line object is positioned above the line containing the text insertion point; a Custom object can be positioned outside the text frame, relative to the spine, margins, and more.
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe InDesign CS2
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of InDesign CS2
About the authors
John Cruise is an Adobe-certified InDesign expert, writer, and design instructor. He spent five years at Quark as a technical writer and has coauthored several books about page layout and software, including the The InDesign Bible, The QuarkXPress 4 Bible, and QuarkXPress 4 for Dummies. He has contributed articles about publishing and page layout software to several national magazines, including MacAddict, Layers Magazine, and InDesign Magazine. He is the co-author of Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos.
Kelly Kordes Anton is a freelance writer and editor based in Littleton, Colorado. She writes regularly for Quark, Extensis, Element K’s Inside QuarkXPress and Inside InDesign newsletters, and X-Ray magazine. As the editor of Colorado Expression magazine and a copy editor for many local publishers, Kelly is able to put her publishing software knowledge at work in real-world environments. She is the co-author of Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos.
Excerpted from “Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques” by John Cruise and Kelly Kordes Anton © 2006. Used with the permission of Adobe Press. To purchase this book, please visit adobepress.com.
