Finding floating objects

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Finding floating objects

Is there someway to find floating objects in a Pages 09 document?

I am trying to export to an epub and Pages 09 tells me that floating objects cannot be exported and to convert them to inline. I have many figures in the document most with captions which I have produced by inserting a jpeg file, then a text box, grouping the jpeg file and text box, and putting the group inline. All figures show as an inline group when I select them. There don't appear to be any stray jpegs or text boxes floating around. Yet, I still get the export error message.

MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Pages 09

Posted on Dec 5, 2010 2:54 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 5, 2010 3:03 PM in response to wmwedel

1. Hold down the command key and lasso around the outside of the document margins. or

2. +command click+ outside the document margins and go +command a+ (select all)

Are the floating objects perhaps master objects or background objects?

+Menu > Format > Advanced > Make Master Objects Selectable+

+Menu > Arrange > Make Background Objects Selectable+

Peter

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Answer 2

wmwedel Author

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Dec 6, 2010 3:11 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

The only thing I see when I do 2 is that in the Info menu floating objects gets selected. Nothing appears in the document window to indicate that it as found a floating object. When I do 2 on the page where the photos appear in the document window but do not appear in the epub, I see nothing.

Making master objects selectable and background objects selectable does not seem to change anything in the document. Making background objects selectable does set the radio button in the Info window.

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Answer 3

fruhulda

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Dec 6, 2010 11:44 PM in response to wmwedel

Do the #2 and get the floating images selected. Then make them inline. They should move into the text. You might need to move them to their proper place. ePub document images have to be inline.

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