One of the best things about working with InDesign is the flexibility that it offers for customizing how the application will behave. Preferences are a great way of managing and maintaining various settings in the application for all documents or on a document-by-document basis.
InDesign provides three text wrap preference options. Experiment with the following settings to determine if these options are something that would ease your design work.
Set Text Wrap Preferences
- To view the text wrap preferences, select InDesign>Preferences>Composition.
- At this dialog, select the appropriate checkbox to enable any of the following:
Justify Text Next to an Object overrides local settings that justify text that wraps around an object. This option ensures that text will follow an object’s shape rather than keeping any ragged margins that would make the wrap look awkward.
Skip by Leading uses the text’s leading to determine how much space should follow an object that is wrapping. This option works only if the Jump Object text-wrap feature is selected in the Text Wrap panel.
Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath ensures that only text below an object wraps around that object. In some cases, this option lets some text overlap an image and some text overwrap it, depending on the stacking order.
Preferences can be set for an individual document or for all documents created in InDesign. Setting a preference at a document level means the user is choosing the desired options for the document only and must do so with the document open. Setting a preference at the application level must be done with no documents open.
The application-level preference ensures that all documents a user creates and opens will be using the selected preference setting, unless a different setting has already been applied to an existing document.
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