If your book is to also contain images, feel happy, because images help so much to illustrate the textual content. Therefore the images should be placed near the corresponding content and not – like practised even 30 years ago – be collected in say eight pages in the center of the book, or even at the end of the book.
You may place images simply
in the book document. Select
the Image tool
, create a frame, import an image, done. –
But what if the image is perfectly placed near the corresponding
content on page 42 today, but next week the text changes, and the
image should then rather be placed on page 44?
It would be ideal if images could follow the textual content, even becoming part of the textual content. It's possible!
Place your text edit cursor somewhere in the text where you want to insert an image. The following picture shows a temporary textual placeholder where the image is to be inserted. This text line has been created in our manual database. It informs us when typesetting the manual, where to place which image.
Now open the context menu by doing a [Ctrl]-click and choose the
menu item Insert Image
.
Please be careful when importing the image not to use a wrong
import mode which could change the size of the text frame. Always
choose the import mode Import Content to Frame
for this:
Following this, you will see a dialog where you can, and should, define the size of the image. Please keep in mind that your text frame in our example has a width of about 9.3 cm. Your image should not be wider in order to be shown inside the text frame.
If you have switched on the proportional mode symbol (i.e. the chain between both measurement values), and only change the width of an image, the height will automatically be adjusted proportionally.
In our example, we have to remove the temporary placeholder text
for the image after import. In fact the image will not be placed
properly in the text, but will cover other text lines. The reason is
that the image is now treated as a character in the text frame. If the
image is higher than the adjusted text line height, it will be treated
like a very high character. In our example we have adjusted the text
ruler's line height to exactly 11 pt
, so the high image covers
the previous lines.
But there is a remedy. Please create a new text ruler for images
in the Text Ruler inspector
using the parameters as shown
below:
If you select only the image in the text frame with your mouse, and assign this text ruler, the image will automatically be formatted and output below the preceding text, and in front of following text:
