Text wrap in Publisher 2003

[El Bimbo]

Hi all!

Doesn't Publisher 2003 recognize automatically white areas around pictures
like Publisher 2000 when using text wrap around the picture?

Only way to do this automatically - that I know - is to save picture with
Alpha Channel.

EB

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher 2003 works the same as 2000, just a little more manual work. With bitmaps
you have to adjust the wrap points, but there are far fewer and the points are
exactly where you put them. In 2000 the wrap points were arbitrarily placed, line art
images end up with large numbers of wrap points at times.

 

[Ed Bennett]

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Publisher 2003 works the same as 2000, just a little more manual
work. With bitmaps you have to adjust the wrap points, but there are
far fewer and the points are exactly where you put them.

I would tend to disagree.
Publisher 2003 behaves the same as 2000 - it will automatically place the
wrap points - but it will only place them around an image with transparency.
White areas are treated as "image" and are included in the wrapping box.
Transparent areas are taken out by the wrapping.
This is the same in bitmapped images and vector images.
I have tested with a transparent .gif and it has put wrap points around the
edge of the image.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I don't know if the poster was speaking about .gif's or .wmf's. I know the wrap
points will go to the edge on a .gif or .wmf. The poster probably would not have
asked if they were these formats. When one uses a jpg or bmp it is a manual thing.
The poster did not say what format he was using so I assumed a jpg or bmp. Tif's with
a white background will not wrap to the image.

 

[Ed Bennett]

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I don't know if the poster was speaking about .gif's or .wmf's. I
know the wrap points will go to the edge on a .gif or .wmf. The
poster probably would not have asked if they were these formats. When
one uses a jpg or bmp it is a manual thing.

If you use GIF or WMF with a white background (a white rectangle added as a
background in the WMF) then the wrap points will go to the corners of the
box (4 wrap points).
The only reason that the wrap points stay square on the BMP and JPG formats
is because they do not support transparency of any sort.