Wrap Nudger

• Droopy wraps around circular objects
• Inability to manipulate user-modified text wraps (other than by individually moving path points or segments)

With WrapNudger you can for the first time conveniently expand or tighten user-modified text wraps, nudge an item within its wrap without moving the wrap, and nudge a wrap of any shape without moving the item.

Originally developed to address the infamous droopy wrap problem where InDesign does a poor job of tracking the lower half of a circular wrap:

WrapNudger can be used with any kind of wrap, and most importantly, with wraps that the Text Wrap panel has given up on:

What is the use of an almost completely grayed out Text Wrap panel? Not a lot. It does let you abandon the wrap you've worked on and start over, but that's about it. However, with WrapNudger, you have control over the macro-aspects of your wrap. You want to move it down and to the left? No trouble:

When using WrapNudger, you still have the ability to move individual points or add them using the Direct Select tool and Pen tool, as appropriate. You also can change the size of the wrap using the two buttons to the right (the top one expands the wrap, the bottom one tightens it). When changing the size, the selected proxy point on the Control or Transform panel is used as the anchor point for the action.

WrapNudger provides a Nudge Multiplier drop-down that gives you control over the extent of the nudges it uses. Also, the size of the nudge is a function of how closely zoomed in you are on the object you're working on. WrapNudger even lets you manipulate multiple selected objects at once, although it seems more likely that one would want to use it on one object at a time.

But that's not all! If you manipulate the Target drop down at bottom left of the palette, you'll see that you can also nudge the selected item. What's news about this feature is that when you use this to move a text wrapped item, the text wrap stays still. So, if you have your text wrapping around an item and the text is just the way you want it, you can nudge the item to get it to look best within the established text wrap.

To get from that droopy wrap image above to an acceptable look, I first tightened the wrap a tad to get the text in the first line under the image outside of the wrap, and then I nudged the image down and to the left (without moving the wrap) to arrive at this: