Yes, you can, but it is a bare-bones feature at best. And, due to the inability to use copy/paste on OS X it won't work on that platform at all ATM.

What you do is copy the picture or drawing to the pasteboard, switch to the text tool, click in the text to place the text cursor where you want the object to be, then paste.

There are some serious limitations to this:

- Text will not flow around the object as the object is embedded in the text so this is not the same as anchoring an object to text (which is, IMO, a much needed feature).

- Because the object is embedded it will affect the line height of the text where it is at.

- The object cannot later be edited or altered in any way. It merely exists in the document and floats with the text.

- It has been a long time since I've used this functionality, but I have a vague recollection that it behaves poorly if you the object is external.

Tim Doty

On Jun 16, 2012, at 7:52 PM, admfubar@gmail.com wrote:

> ok i thought one could do this in pgs, can you take an object like a picture or drawing and have it behave like text, so the object flows with the text, rather that being just staticly placed on the page?
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i remember is was some slightly off the track way of doing it. hadnt the need for a while, and having been spoiled by libreoffice, scribus and other like minded tools by the ease of use of that feature, i forgot how it was done

thanks

On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:04:00 -0400, Tim Doty <thoromyr@mac.com> wrote:

> Yes, you can, but it is a bare-bones feature at best. And, due to the inability to use copy/paste on OS X it won't work on that platform at all ATM.
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> What you do is copy the picture or drawing to the pasteboard, switch to the text tool, click in the text to place the text cursor where you want the object to be, then paste.
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> There are some serious limitations to this:
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> - Text will not flow around the object as the object is embedded in the text so this is not the same as anchoring an object to text (which is, IMO, a much needed feature).
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> - Because the object is embedded it will affect the line height of the text where it is at.
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> - The object cannot later be edited or altered in any way. It merely exists in the document and floats with the text.
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> - It has been a long time since I've used this functionality, but I have a vague recollection that it behaves poorly if you the object is external.
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> Tim Doty
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> On Jun 16, 2012, at 7:52 PM, admfubar@gmail.com wrote:
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>> ok i thought one could do this in pgs, can you take an object like a picture or drawing and have it behave like text, so the object flows with the text, rather that being just staticly placed on the page?
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