Wrap text around objects

Creates a rectangular wrap whose width and height are determined by the bounding box of the selected object, including any offset distances you specify.

Also known as contour wrapping, creates a text wrap boundary that is the same shape as the frame you’ve selected (plus or minus any offset distances you specify).

Keeps text from appearing in any available space to the right or left of the frame.

Forces the surrounding paragraph to the top of the next column or text frame.

From the Wrap To menu, specify whether the wrap is applied to a specific side (such as the right side or largest area) or toward or away from the spine. (If you don’t see the Wrap To menu, choose Show Options from the Text Wrap panel menu.)

This option is available only if you selected Wrap Around Bounding Box or Wrap Around Object Shape.

Navigate to the Text Wrap panel, select Window > Text Wrap.

Import the image and prepare the text that you would want to wrap around a subject.

Select the image, and from the Text Wrap panel, select Wrap around object shape .

In the Contour Options section, choose Type > Select Subject. InDesign displays the anchor points around the subject. 

To add or delete anchor points, use Pen tool. To select or move anchor points use direct selection tool. Click OK when you finish making changes. 

Bounding Box

Wraps text to the rectangle formed by the image’s height and width.

Detect Edges

Generates the boundary using automatic edge detection. (To adjust edge detection, select the object and choose Object > Clipping Path > Options.)

Alpha Channel

Generates the boundary from an alpha channel saved with the image. If this option isn’t available, no alpha channels were saved with the image. InDesign recognizes the default transparency in Adobe Photoshop (the checkerboard pattern) as an alpha channel; you must otherwise use Photoshop to delete the background or create and save one or more alpha channels with the image.

Photoshop Path

Generates the boundary from a path saved with the image. Choose Photoshop Path, and then choose a path from the Path menu. If the Photoshop Path option isn’t available, no named paths were saved with the image.

Graphic Frame

Generates the boundary from the container frame.

Same As Clipping

Generates the boundary from the imported image’s clipping path.

• To uniformly change the distance between the text and wrap object, specify offset values in the Text Wrap panel.

• To edit the text wrap boundary, use the Pen tool  and Direct Selection tool.

Justify Text Next To An Object

Justifies text next to wrap objects that separate a column of text. This setting takes effect only when the text wrap completely interrupts lines of text so that each line is divided into two or more parts.

Skip By Leading

Moves wrapped text to the next available leading increment below a text-wrapped object. If this option isn’t selected, lines of text may jump below an object in a way that prevents text from lining up with text in neighboring columns or text frames. Selecting this option is especially useful when you want to make sure that the text aligns to the baseline grid.

Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath

Text stacked above the wrapped object isn’t affected by the text wrap. Stacking order is determined by layer position in the Layers panel and by the stacking order of objects on a layer.