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Placing the images as anchored objects

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Placing the images as anchored objects

- [Illustrator] So I now want to anchor the images within the text flow. And as I mentioned, I'm going to keep all of my content in a single document. This has some pros and it has some cons as well. So this is not a perfect solution. There are some limitations to working with anchored objects, especially when they are as large as the ones that we are working with. So let's see the first of those limitations. These magenta text and green outlines indicate the position that I want to anchor the image to. Now if I it and doesn't have to be literally this position but just around this position. If I were to anchor the text right here I'm going to drag from that blue square to the beginning of that paragraph, and now I move the image onto the page and to move the text that is currently overlapping out of its way, I would come and add a text wrap. In this case, I'll choose jump object. What we're going to see is that that doesn't entirely work and it doesn't entirely work, if I just move…

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