- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Importing and sizing graphics
- Editing placed pictures
- Working with dropped backgrounds
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Using subject-aware text wrap
- Filling type with a graphic
- Using an InDesign library to manage objects
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using subject-aware text wrap
A new feature in InDesign 2021 is Subject-Aware Text Wrap. Similar to Content-Aware Fit, it uses artificial intelligence to find the subject of a photo and then creates a text wrap path around that subject. It works on images that do not have a dropped background.
Navigate to page 6, and choose View > Fit Page In Window to center page 6 on your screen.
Using the Selection tool (
), click the sunflower image under the text frame that contains a numbered list with white text (the songs on this CD).Choose Window > Text Wrap to open the Text Wrap panel if you closed it after the previous exercise. Position the panel so that you can see the changes as you apply settings. In the Text Wrap panel, select Wrap Around Object Shape (
) to flow the text around the graphic.This time, from the Type menu under Contour Options, choose Select Subject, which may be turned on as the default setting.
Notice that a path has been created around the petals of the sunflower, and the text of the song list is now wrapping around the flower, following this path. To make the text flow more smoothly, we’ll change the offset. Click the up arrow four times, or type .25 in the Top Offset box.
The song list is now wrapping around the flower in an appealing way. But the address in the text frame below is also being affected by the text wrap setting on the sunflower image, and that’s not what we want. To prevent that text frame from following the wrap path, use the Selection tool (
) to select the text frame that contains the address to the right of the Ricky Records logo.Choose Object > Text Frame Options and click Ignore Text Wrap at the bottom of the dialog box. Click OK. The text of the address returns to its previous position while the song list remains wrapped around the flower.
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