Theresa de Valence wrote: > One of my techniques for quickly conveying an idea is to use > a small line drawing (lines, boxes, circles and text). I have > been doing these drawings in Frame for many years, having > never developed any greater flexability with any other > drawing software. > > These drawing files are imported as Text Insets.
If you're using FM's drawing tools, why not just create the drawings in the FM doc in which they appear? You can draw in a graphic frame placed on the page, if you don't want the graphic to flow with the text, or in an anchored frame if you do. A text inset seems a singularly awkward way to insert a drawing. > In this way I have NO control over how the drawing appears in > the document flow. If I put the drawing into an anchored > frame, my only choice is "run into paragraph" which places > the drawing on the left side of the paragraph. Your only choice? You don't have other Anchoring Position options (Below Current Line, At Top of Column, At Bottom of Column, etc.) and Alignment options (Left, Center, Right, etc.) in the Anchored Frame dialog? (And you can't change the alignment, indents, etc., of the container paragraph either?) Either something's wrong with your FM installation or you're doing something quite odd with this text inset procedure. How are you doing this? Are you creating the drawing in an anchored frame in the source file and importing the flow in which it resides into your destination (main) flow? Or are you importing into a text frame inside an anchored frame in your destination (main) flow? Have you tried just creating an anchored frame, playing with the size, anchoring, and alignment, and then proceeding to draw inside it? I think whatever's causing your lack of placement control has something to do with your text inset importing process, and I suggest dumping that. HTH! Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
