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• • November 12, 2010 at 7:02 am #57703
    Rhiannon Miller

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    I have a document with a number of coloured text boxes each with rounded corners and a further rounded-corner text box of a different colour inside it, off-centre (in effect, the outer one holds the title and the inner one the content). They need to be at specific positions in the text, so I'd created them (in CS4) as anchored objects, with the 'content' frame anchored inside the 'title' frame, and then the 'title' frame anchored to the main text.

    If I bring the file into CS5, the 'content' frame disappears behind the 'title' frame. If I release the anchor from the content frame, it pops back to the front. Is this a bug, or is there some way to get the inner anchored object to appear in front of the outer one?

    It's not a big problem, as I can continue working on the file in CS4, but I was wondering if anyone else had experienced the same thing?

  • November 12, 2010 at 7:30 am #57705
    David Blatner

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    That sound odd. So these are all text frames, anchored into one another?

    If I anchor redframe into yellowframe, and yellowframe into blueframe (in cs5), then I can see all of them. It sounds as though you're saying that redframe disappears behind yellowframe for you?

  • November 12, 2010 at 8:01 am #57708
    Rhiannon Miller

    Member

    That's exactly right, but only for CS4 documents imported to CS5. If I create the frames in CS5 they work fine. In fact, the problem seems to be with the 'title' frames (so yellowframe in your example); if I load the document in CS5 and create a new frame with the 'title' object style, and anchor an existing 'content' frame into it, then that appears the way it should. If I create a new frame with the 'content' object style, and anchor it into an existing 'title' frame, then the content frame is hidden.

    And it only happens when the outer frame is anchored – if I release a title frame in CS4 and then bring the document into CS5, then there's no problem, even though the content frame is still anchored. But if the title frame is anchored in CS4, then when I've brought it into CS5, even releasing the title frame doesn't resolve it: only releasing the content frame fixes it.

  • December 20, 2010 at 3:19 pm #58162
    Kelly Vaughn

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    I am having a similar problem. I opened a CS4 file in CS5 and when I insert an anchored object, then change the options from Inline to Custom, the object simply disappears. But it's only happening in one of my files… So I can't pinpoint why it is happening.

  • December 20, 2010 at 7:18 pm #58166
    Mike Rankin

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    orielwen and knitgirl145-

    Instead of opening the CS4 document with CS5, try exporting IDML from CS4 and open that in CS5. This solves the problem on my machine.

  • January 24, 2011 at 9:12 pm #58495
    Kelly Vaughn

    Participant

    Thanks Mike, that fixed it. I was able to export as IDML, set the anchored objects to Custom, and then copy and paste those text frames back into my INDD file.

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