Anchored graphic as background image?

I am working with text flowing continuously through a master text frame unto multiple pages and I am trying to anchor a full-page background image (with bleed) onto specific pages. Is this possible?
I want the background image to stay with the relevant heading on each page. However, when I use "Object/Anchored Object/Insert" to do this with "custom" as the anchor option I end up with a frame on the same layer as my text. This is okay, but when I place an image in the frame, it covers the text I have entered in the text frame. I can see the dotted line indicating the anchor connection, but not the text it is anchored to. I can't change the order of objects within the layer because the "Arrange" options are greyed out. Changing the text wrap options does not help.

Thanks Bob! Really good to know. I will stop hitting my head against a brick wall!
Adding backgrounds to master pages doesn't really cut it since I still can't have them flow dynamically with the continually evolving text in this project. (I suspect I might be able to flow backgrounds with text in Word, if it came to it, but of course I chose InDesign to give me more control, particularly over the non-text elements of the layout).

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Anyone? I'd like something besides the play/pause text --
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> E. T. Culling wrote:
>
>> Please, what do you mean by this:
>> "Refer deesadler's reply in this thread." I don't
see that.
>>
>
> Hi Eleanor,
>
> You need to use some css to apply the background image
to the cell. The
> complete page code you need is beneath these
instructions, just in case
> you have trouble in implementing the changes.
>
> The css is below (add it to the css styles which already
exist in the head
> section of your page)
>
> #cellBg {
> background-image:
url(Graphics/Content-box-top-775.gif);"
> background-repeat: no-repeat;
> }
>
> Then you need the add the id 'cellBg' to the cell as
below and remove
> 'background="Graphics/Content-box-top-775.gif'
>
> Like this:
>
>
> <td id="cellBg" width="774" height="201"
valign="top">
>
>
> Here is the complete revised page:
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <table width="1000" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="10">
> <tr>
> <th width="1019" bgcolor="#f8f8dc"
scope="row"><table width="1000"
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> <tr>
>
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/></th>
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valign="top"><center>
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>
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Try something along the lines of this: Create a new class called BackgroundImagePanel and have it extend JPanel.
Have an attribute in the class for your image, and a method to set it.
Override isOpaque() to return true.
Override the paintComponenet method as such:
public void paintComponent (Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
if( image == null ) return;
Icon icon = new ImageIcon(image);
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Bill

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There would be only two ways to make this layout 'work'.
1. Just make everything on that page a graphic. Then there is
no
possibility that resizing the text in the browser will blow
the layout.
This is a very bad idea for obvious reasons.
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approach
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no way to tile
the background image to fill the newly created space.
Beyond that, I think you are a dead duck. The problem is not
that this is
what you were given to work with - it's that you didn't
understand how
unusable the design was when you accepted it. I think your
best option now
is to go back to the designer and explain to them how this
lovely layout
only works well in print, and not on the web. Show them how
it fails.
Solicit suggestions from them for how to make it work in a
medium where
there is no way to control the size of the text.
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> By "a rigid layout scheme that cannot allow flexibility"
I assume you mean
> that
> everything shouldn't be bound inside the position of the
background-image,
> but
> this is what the designer and client gave me to work
with.and so I have to
> make
> due.
>
> With that in mind, I hope someone out there can help me
out with this!
>

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Can a script be written to take the next 2 files in a folder and place them on a background image..then saving with the first images filename..?

Hello all, I hope you can help.
In Photoshop I have a problem to overcome and have delved into the world of scripting..
If there is a quick way to produce the following could someone help me with some pointers?
Here is my situation..
I need to produce a photograph proof card, these are for a double image option so cause me a headache compared to just creating an action..
This proof card really is just a set of two different photographs placed onto a background image.
I would produce two different images of the same person and name them exactly the same except they are suffixed with an A or B to keep them together, these would be in a folder with approx 500 other images for example (250 x two of each person)
My preference for the process would be done in the following sequence:
1/ Open the background file jpg (which is sized at 2400 x 1800 pixels @ 300dpi)
2/ Load the first image from the batch file and place this.
3/ Get the filename of the first image and create it as a text layer and write it below the image at 10 point text size.
4/ Create another copy of this layer and change the font to 3of9barcode font, however the font needs an asterisk before the text then again after it. e.g. *filenameA*
Only the first image has the need for a barcode as they are for the same person. This is at 18 point.
5/ Load the next sequential image from the batch file and place this.
6/ Get the filename for the second image and as Item 3/ create a text layer below at 10 point text size.
7/ Place a png overlay with my copyright information over the images (I need to do this twice, once for each image)
8/ Flatten the images and save the file in a new folder with the same filename as the first image.
I can do this in Lightroom with the exception of putting the barcoded text, and the filenaming, this is because the background image is used as the identity plate and the filename is not based on the data from either photograph..
Can anyone shed some light on where to go from here?
Kind regards
Bryan

Photoshop Scripting-wise this seems fairly "easy".
But I would recommend creating a template file (that already combines background image, png overlay and the Type Layers).
Maybe data driven graphics would also be an option …
Photoshop Help | Creating data-driven graphics

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