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• • June 22, 2011 at 10:07 am #59914
    Mathieu Christe

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    A recent job had me notice that InDesign can't handle text overflow in anchored text box the way it does for usual text box.

    In my document, I have an anchored text box with overflow. If I click on the overflow symbol, it simply doesn't work.

    Is it a bug, a limitation? Do you know a workaround?

    Thanks in advance for your help.

  • June 22, 2011 at 3:13 pm #59917
    Theunis De Jong

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    InDesign doesn't allow “anchored stories”, spanning multiple frames, just single anchored frames. It's a good thing, too, because otherwise you could link the text in an anchored frame to itself in its own parent frame, creating an infinite loop — or possibly a Mobius strip of text!

    … You'll have to think of another way to get what you want.

  • June 23, 2011 at 9:19 am #59920
    Anonymous

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    If you thread the frames and flow text before anchoring.

    Then group both text frames. And then anchor them, the text does flow from text frame to text frame.

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