Hi there! In this video we’ll be talking about ‘text wrap’ in InDesign, so let’s get started.
I have this document here, filled with text already, so I need to place an image in the center
of this page. Let me grab the rectangle frame tool, and make a frame in here, and with my frame
selected, let’s go to file, and then place, and locate the image on the computer, and hit open.
Let’s click the image, to select it, and then right-click, and go to fitting, and then select
‘fit frame to content’ option, and the image shall expand to fill in the frame. Let’s drag
to center-align the image. At this point, the text is hidden behind the image, so let’s change that,
by going to window, and then ‘text wrap.’ You can see that ‘no text wrap’ option is selected,
at the moment. Click the image once, to select it, and then click the icon right next to the
selected option, which says ‘wrap around bounding box’, and the text should roll around the image,
or the bounding box, so to speak. However, the problem is, that it is still touching the image,
so we need to have some sort of padding around the image. Click the link icon in the centre,
so that updating one side, updates all. Increase the size of one of the sides,
and it shall add a padding all around the image. I think ‘p6’ should be good enough, and that’s how
you text wrap around an image. Now let’s move on to another page, and try it with a letter.
With the text tool, make a large text box on the pasteboard, and type in the letter ’T’.
Let’s select the letter, and change the font to ‘Poppins Black’,
or any other chunky font of you choice, and update the font size to 300 points.
If you move this letter on top of the text, and click the ‘wrap around bounding box’ option,
this is what happens. It is wrapping around bounding box, which is the frame, in this case,
and that’s not what we want. We want the text to come close to the edges of the letter, so
to do that, with the letter selected, go to type, and select ‘create outlines.’ So now, the letter,
is not a font anymore, it’s been transformed into a shape. Let’s center-align the shape, and let’s
zoom-in as well. This time we need to select the third option from the left, which is ‘wrap around
object shape’, and you see, the text is almost touching the boundaries of the shape. If you try
the second option, you’ll find the bounding box returns, to haunt us, and we don’t want that, so
select the third option from the left. The reason why you see only one offset option highlighted is
because, the shape is not rectangular, like in case of the image we inserted earlier. So
when we increase the offset, it will increase proportionately from all sides, as you can see.
You can play with wrap options here as well, so if we select ‘right side’,
text is thrown to the right side,’left side’ selection also gives similar result.
Selecting ‘both right and left sides’, is the most apt option for our shape.
‘Slide towards spine’, will slide the text towards the spine area, which is the center
of the two facing pages. Similarly, ‘slide away from spine’, will throw the text to the
opposite side of the spine. ‘Largest area’, will not make much of a difference than ‘both
right and left sides’, so we’re going to stick to ‘both right and left sides’ option.
Lastly, you can also try ‘jump object’ option from top, and you shall find it
restricting the text on both sides of the shape. ‘Jump to next column’ will even throw
away the text beneath the shape, to the next page, so depending upon the situation, you,
as a designer need to decide what to chose here, unless clearly specified otherwise,
by the client. The ‘invert’ checkbox, will invert the area on both sides of the shape,
so at the moment there is text, and check the invert box, and the text is swept clean.
Let’s uncheck the invert box to get back to our settings. It’s a fun tool,
and makes your text as creative, as you can make it to appear, so do make good use of it.
Alright guys! That concludes our session,
and I’m going to see you in the next one, in just a bit. Good bye!