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• • December 9, 2010 at 9:51 am #58051
    Steve Straus

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    I am anchoring a tint box behind a special paragraph so the tint box always stays with the text when edits occur. When this box is anchored, it goes over the text, not behind it. While I can change the Effect to Multiply to read the text, this still covers the text, so selecting the text to edit is difficult.

    I have tried to put the anchor in another paragraph, before the text, and after the text. It always sits on top and cannot be shifted to the back (behind the text).

    Any work arounds to get this tint box to the back?

  • December 10, 2010 at 1:55 am #58057
    Tim Hughes

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    It won't work as an anchored box.

    Use paragraph rules, one above and one below thick enough and offset so they meet in the middle, if your paragraph grows more lines you will need to change the rules but you would need to change the box size in your above scenario anyway.

    Another way would be to be to convert the paragraph into a single cell table, this will expand if you change the paragraph but you do loose the text flow into the table, although its easy enough to change back to text then back again to table.

  • December 10, 2010 at 7:16 am #58064
    Steve Straus

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    While this might work in other situations, this one is particularly frustrating. I need to place an irregular shaped element behind the text block (sort of a star burst thingy). Since this can't be done with Rules, I am stuck anchoring it. I was hoping to find a way to get this behind the text, but it turns out that this is just a fantasy of mine. . .

  • December 10, 2010 at 12:58 pm #58066
    Alan Gilbertson

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    Sounds to me like you could create the shape and the special paragraph separately, arrange them as you want and group them. Then place the group as an anchored object in the main story. Text would still be editable in that situation, the whole thing would move with the main text in the usual way, and if text flow forced that para onto a new page, you would want the entire “assembly” to move in one shot anyway. I've not experimented, but it seems to me this would work okay.

  • December 14, 2010 at 8:46 am #58105
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    Great workaround! What do you think, Steve?

  • December 14, 2010 at 9:03 am #58106
    Steve Straus

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    After running a few tests, yes this will work for me. That being said, I am not going to change the way I do it because this is being edited in InCopy. One problem with anchored text is that it does not show up in the Story or Galley view in InCopy. The only way to edit this text is in layout view. While this is doable, I don't want to dictate to the editor how to use InCopy — they need to do it the way they are comfortable.

    Anchoring the text and tint block is a great solution. I will keep it in mind for future projects. Since this book is not my design, I don't have the authority to alter the design for production sake. . .

  • March 15, 2019 at 7:45 pm #114985
    Ruo Pu Koh

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    super late to the discussion. Seems like you still can’t set anchor objects to appear behind the text.
    Depending on the design , you can set the anchored object to multiply.

    Unfortunately Alan’s way wouldn’t work if that bit of text includes an endnote. (the numbering gets screwed up)

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