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Adobe InDesign, 2nd Edition

by Stephen Laskevitch
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 42m
English
Rocky Nook
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Text Wrap

Text wrap is a kind of force field you apply to a frame to push text away from the frame’s content. This creates a more dynamic layout without text and (usually) graphics colliding. The frame to which text wrap is applied could be another text frame like one containing a pull quote. Let’s create two kinds of text wrap.

  • Go to the page 6–7 spread in the downloaded course file 04 Shapes and Object Styles.indd.

On page 7 is a biography of Sir John Herschel that is partially obscured by the placed PDF (his portrait and the caption). We will use the most common form of text wrap to push the text out from under that portrait and control how far away from its edges the text will be.

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