However there is one niggling problem as a graphic designer when using InDesign to produce pay layouts for clients. Picture this scenario: A client has provided copy and images for a short document. It's very text heavy with a few nice images to beak up the text. You, the designer, have laid out the text and images, hopefully using stylesheets and the client is happy with the head, title, body and other text styles, and the position of the images. Then, the client updates the copy and you have to replace much of the text. Suddenly the text reflows and your well-placed images now appear alongside different text! So how to anchor images in InDesign?
There is an easy solution: Place your images or objects in the copy as anchored objects! That way they will move as the text length changes. It's as easy as this:
1 Select the image/object you wish to anchor to the text.
2 cmd+x or Edit>Cut
3 Place the text cursor or I-beam at the point in the text you wish to anchor the image/object
4 cmd+v or Edit>Paste
5 Use the Text Wrap pallet to set the wrapping options and text offset
6 Select the image/object with the direct select tool (black arrow) and go to Object>Anchored Object>Options
7 Set the anchored object position within the text in relation to the page (can be a bit fiddly, but just experiment and all will become clear)
8 Here is the anchored image in the text - the anchor position is circled
Now, if the copy length changes and text reflows, the images or objects will move with the anchor, even across pages and spreads! The anchor is also easily removed by going to Object>Anchored Objects>Release.
