Adobe InDesign Anchored Objects - Frustratingly bad design

[@claudioabado3317]

IF you want Text Wrap to work with Anchored object, it has to be anchored to the last character of the previous line. Credit to David Blatner from InDesignSecrets for the tip. And then, you apply Text Wrap the usual way, to push text to the sides of the picture.

[@davidborrink137]

I don't know if you aren't aware of this, but you don't have to click in the text and then do Object > Anchored Object > Insert. Your object has a blue "box dot" on the top edge that you click, hold down and drag to the location you want it anchored to. The method you showed is more involved than needed.

[@ayem9504]

Man this is so annoying, that first line just ignores the text wrap. Did anyone have their wordflow altered when placing the anchor at the end of an paragraph? I am working with block style and when I anchor an image at the end of the paragraph the whole paragraph is affected; changing some hypenations and textflow in general. Does anyone managed to resolve that issue? The tipp pointed out by David is also how i do it. Place the image maually where you want it to be and then click the blue square in the upper righthand corner of every image or textobject to anchor that particular element into another textbox. However after its anchored the image behaves very strange you cannot resize the image without it jumping into every unexpected direction. This turely is frustrating. When you alt+click on the anchor symbol (upper righthand corner of an anchord image) you get the options panel for the anchord object... Nothing I did was able to resolve these issues. Have I mentioned that its frustrating? Cant stress that last part enough.

[@andyfairchild]

InDesign was not developed for book projects. That's why using it for images within book projects is incredibly challenging.

[@Saanichian]

One would think that with all this AI stuff, they should be able to make it so that you can just drag the object frame to where you want it, designate it as an anchored object, and have the option to have the system do a “keep with text, best fit” or take full manual control. That’s how it should work, anyway.

[@Stiglr]

Yes! Incredibly poor, counter-intuitive design with extreme "feature bloat". It seems to do everything you DON'T want it to do, yet can't do anything you WANT it to do. I'm surprised you have managed to place an object in the right column and can get it to appear at the right, with the text wrapping to the left. ALSO: WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYONE EVER WANT TO HAVE A "DISPLAY BOX" THAT WAS NOT ALIGNED WITH THE GRAPHIC ASSOCIATED WITH IT??? WHY WOULD YOU EVER SEPARATE THEM?????? 😡

[@jeansienkin]

Yeah, it's not intuitive at all. What you can actually do to avoid the first line being skipped from the wrap is to attach the anchored object at the end of the previous paragraph.

[@adammucharski6863]

I hate You Adobe for that!

[@datyub]

😂