Text Wrap ignored by numbered and bulleted lists

[L***@adobeforums.com]

I have applied text wrap with an offset to a custom-positioned anchored object, but found that numbered or bulleted lists (with a negative first-line indent) in the adjacent text frame do not recognize the offset. Body text is fine. I know it must be possible to wrap numbered lists, because I've seen it done in InDesign texts.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution?

Using version CS 4.0 with Windows XP serv. pack 2.

[D***@adobeforums.com]

Actually, what you have in CS2 is widely regarded erroneously as a bug when it is in fact a powerful feature that I am already missing because the "buggers" have won the battle and CS3 doesn't behave this way.

The problem is that if the bullet or number is affected by the text wrap then it loses its hanging indent which is vital.

To make it work properly in your situation, just make the text wrap offset larger. But be prepared to have to do something different in CS3. I have found a workaround that you can also use in CS2 (at least for bullets) -- use an anchored text frame to hold the bullet.

I would recommend updating to CS2 4.0.5 if you haven't already done so, but this won't make any difference to this particular issue.

Dave

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Interesting - I've come across this in a particularly irritating way when producing biography books for meeting - which are generated via data merge and have 4 image frames/page. Typically there's both bulleted and non-bulleted text wrapping at the bottom of the page, and the only solution I could find was to manually add points to the wrapping path and adjust in segments so indented and non-indented text was properly aligned.

If there's a way to fix this/make it not happen in CS2 then it'll save me a ton of time until CS3 purchase time rolls around.

[D***@adobeforums.com]

While it is irritating, it is at least possible to do. If the bullets are affected by the wrap they lose their "outdent" -- you can get around this with rectangular wraps by changing the bullet to text and then replacing the tab after the bullet with an en-space and an indent to here. But for non-rectangular wraps this is a disaster.

Dave