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[VB] Text Avoiding Picture (not wraparound)

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From: Brian_C._Carter
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:47
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Background Doing a catalog/flyer/thingy with VBScript and CS. Have a rectangle that I use to define bounds of item. This rectangle gets carved up into the following pieces:

-The top third or so gets chopped off for the item title
-The lower left corner gets chopped off for item number
-the lower right corner (twice as tall as lower left) gets chopped off for price.

Actual Problem This leaves us with a very awkward "T" shape for the item photo. That's fine, but when we place it we either have to script resizing the textboxes (hard because its one threaded story) and then resizing the photo box to text frame boundaries, or apply wraparound. Since these are often tight boxes, wraparound always causes everything to overset or float out of position or something.

Actual Question Is there anyway to test if the photo within the clipping path is actually touching or overlapping the text? Something with the visible bounds perhaps? Anything like this, or suggestions at other methods would be a huge help.

Thanks gang.
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