Real World Adobe InDesign CS3

Chapter 6. Where Text Meets Graphics

Usually, we think of text and graphics as occupying two different, but parallel, universes. But there’s an area—a Twilight Zone, something like a Bermuda Triangle of page layout—where the boundary between text and graphics blurs, frays, or becomes thin.

In this strange dimension, text characters can be bound to paths, or become paths, graphics can be embedded in text and behave as if they were text characters, and nothing, nothing is what it seems.

In spite of the repeated warnings of our scientific colleagues, we must, for the sake of humanity, tell what we have discovered in this alien landscape.

Paragraph Rules

Ole laments, “I haven’t looked at the PageMaker 3.0 documentation recently. I don’t have to—it is ...