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From: Hellman on 22 Jun 2008 18:21
I want to center an in-line image in Pages '08 but cannot see how to
do that. I suppose I could make it a floating object (which does
appear to allow placement) and then move it as I add or delete text,
but that seems hokey.

I couldn't find anything in the user manual or in an on-line search,
but please point me there if I missed something.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

Martin

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9rique_=26_Her?==?ISO-8859-1?Q?v=E9_Sainct?= on 22 Jun 2008 19:01
Hellman <hellman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> I want to center an in-line image in Pages '08 but cannot see how to
> do that.

select it and its surrounding line, and choose "centered" in the *text*
attributes

H.

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From: Gerry on 22 Jun 2008 19:02
In article
<3e704825-c86f-4a9d-a3d7-4e5e1ceaba46(a)w34g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
Hellman <hellman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> I want to center an in-line image in Pages '08 but cannot see how to
> do that. I suppose I could make it a floating object (which does
> appear to allow placement) and then move it as I add or delete text,
> but that seems hokey.
>
> I couldn't find anything in the user manual or in an on-line search,
> but please point me there if I missed something.
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks.
>
> Martin

I'm not really sure why you have a problem with having the option of
making the image a floating object. It allows you to place an image on
the page anywhere you want centered or not and then have the text wrap
around the image.

Why do you find this option "hokey"?
From: Hellman on 22 Jun 2008 19:25
On Jun 22, 4:01 pm, h.sai...(a)laposte.net.invalid (Frédérique & Hervé
Sainct) wrote:
> select it and its surrounding line, and choose "centered" in the *text*
> attributes

That's how I thought it would have worked, and I thought I'd tried
that. But clicking on the image did not allow centering - those
alignment options in the inspector window were grayed out. What I
needed to do (and your suggestion got me to try) was triple clicking
on the image so that its entire "line" was selected. Then centering
worked. Thanks for your suggestion!


Turning to Gerry's comment:
>I'm not really sure why you have a problem with having the option of
>making the image a floating object. ... Why do you find this option "hokey"?

I'm new to Pages and maybe I'm not understanding, but if I make it a
floating object then wouldn't I have to move it every time I added
text before it? That's what seemed hokey to me. Doesn't a floating
object have a fixed position on the page? Worse, when I just
experimented by changing one of my images to a floating object, it
appeared in front of the text, some of which became unreadable since
it was covered by the image!

Martin


From: Gerry on 22 Jun 2008 20:06
In article
<357e4b4b-e91b-48df-a5ad-2e32b6232d6a(a)q24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Hellman <hellman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Turning to Gerry's comment:
> >I'm not really sure why you have a problem with having the option of
> >making the image a floating object. ... Why do you find this option "hokey"?
>
> I'm new to Pages and maybe I'm not understanding, but if I make it a
> floating object then wouldn't I have to move it every time I added
> text before it? That's what seemed hokey to me. Doesn't a floating
> object have a fixed position on the page? Worse, when I just
> experimented by changing one of my images to a floating object, it
> appeared in front of the text, some of which became unreadable since
> it was covered by the image!
>
> Martin

If you create a new document you can drag your image to the page, then
click and on the image holding the mouse button down now you can move
the image around the page, as you move it left and right you will
eventually see a blue vertical line indicating your image is centered
left and right, moving the image up and down on the page will eventually
cause a horizontal blue line appear to indicate your image is centered
top to bottom.

Now click on the Inspector button, and click on the third icon from the
left, select Object Placement option floating (image stays centered no
matter what you do with your text, adding or deleting text and the image
will stay centered), you then can select from the Object Cause Wrap menu
the style in which you want your text to flow around the image.
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