QuarkXPress For Dummies

Chapter 14

When Text Met Graphics

IN THIS CHAPTER

Working with text wrap

Anchoring items within the text

Making items “float” alongside text

One of the important ways a page layout application such as QuarkXPress is better than a word processing application such as Microsoft Word is in how you can position items in relation to each other. In this chapter, you see how to make pictures and text boxes push other text out of the way. You also find out how you can anchor items inside the flow of text so that they travel along with the text, or outside the flow of text to create callouts. And if you think that your layout may ultimately become an e-book, you’ll find it essential to know how to anchor items to text.

Wrapping Text around Other Items

When laying out a page with multiple pictures and text boxes, QuarkXPress’s text runaround feature can be both efficient and creative. Text runaround is efficient when you’re moving page items around because if the item you move extends over part of a text box, the text in the text box can automatically move out of the way. Without this feature, you would be constantly rearranging and resizing text boxes to accommodate new or moved page items. ...