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Thinking of using text wrap in a yearbook layout? Click here to learn how to design yearbook layouts on a grid.Īre you a current student? See how you can save over 60%.Configure text wrapping around a picture or drawing object You should have a completed text wrap! Still having trouble? See Adobe’s official guidelines for text wrap here.

At the bottom of this menu, check the “ignore text wrap” option. Just press ctrl/command+B to bring up the text frame options. If you have title elements that overlap the wrapped object, you can turn on a setting that makes them immune to the text wrap.

Optional: choose certain objects to ignore the text wrap.

If this is confusing to you, you can type “inches” or “cm” into any box in InDesign and it will automatically convert for you! (For example, you can type “0.125 inches” into the boundary box and it will still work.) The first value represents the picas and the second represents the pixels, so “0p5” is 0 picas, 5 pixels. InDesign’s default measurements are in pixels and picas. If you want something tighter, like a newspaper layout, try 0p5. If you don’t know what to start off with for your boundary values, try using 1 pica, or 1p0. A boundary of 0p0 versus 0p5 (zero pixels versus five pixels). However, for rectangles, you have the option of un-clicking the link in the middle to create a customized wrap boundary for each side. For irregular shapes, the boundaries must stay equal on all sides. In the text wrap menu, you can make the wrap borders extend further from the shape by inputting a value in the boundary box. With your object selected, click the third icon. Go to Window > Text Wrap to bring up the menu.

Click “wrap around object shape” in the text wrap menu.Now, just apply text wrap to this object! Once you are done drawing this shape, set the fill and stroke to transparent. Follow the outline of the object you would like to wrap, leaving a bit of a gutter (unless you want to do that in the next step). To create a ghost shape: Select the pen tool. However, if you’re wrapping text around one element of a photo but you want other areas to remain in the background, you’ll need to draw a “ghost shape.” Designers often draw ghost shapes even for wrapping normal elements, since it helps to eliminate weird crevices that the text might try to flow into. Text wrap works well on rectangles, circles, or cutout images with transparent backgrounds. If you don’t have any text, fill a box with placeholder text for the sake of this tutorial, just so you can see how the text fits around the object to adjust spacing later.

To do this tutorial, you will need two things: a block of text and an image or shape that you want to wrap the text around. Define the area that you want to wrap text around.