Placing text inline-keeps coming in outside the text box

Question

I have a family tree graphic I made in InDesign, that is saved as a grouped .indd file. I originally placed this family tree into a larger InDesign document that is full of text, and just placed it on top of the text and did a text wrap so the text would no obscure the graphic.
Now I would like to change from a separate placed graphic to an inline text graphic, so the graphic will flow with the text.
When I try either of the following workflows:
--cut graphic, place cursor within text, then paste
or
--delete graphic, choose File > Place, choose graphic.indd file, click cursor into text,
the graphic just appears above the cursor as a separate graphic…not inline.
Any idea what could be happening here?
InDesign CS5 on Mac by the way.

Answer 1

AlyMcF1 wrote:
I saved it as an .eps because
-- .tif wasn't an option
If you have type, it's best to not rasterize it, but if you do want to do that for some reason, export as PDF, open it in Photoshop and save as a tiff. I don't think there is any real advantage to having something made in InDesign converted to a tiff just to place back into InDesign, but if that's what you want, this is better than eps.
AlyMcF1 wrote:
-- didn't think importing a .pdf into a file I plan to export as a .pdf seemed like a good idea (maybe I'm wrong)
I don't know of any downside.
AlyMcF1 wrote:
(I was always taught that copying and pasting was a bad idea…
Maybe in PageMaker, but InDesign is not PageMaker. Copying from Illustrator or Photoshop and pasting into InDesign is bad, because you should be saving from Illustrator or Photoshop and placing, but copying and pasting within InDesign is just fine.
AlyMcF1 wrote:
…and so is resizing a graphic within the page layout app).
Enlarging a raster graphic will lower the effective resolution, but as long as the effective resolution is within your target range, it's OK (e.g., a 600ppi file will be OK if it's twice the size in InDesign if your target resolution is 300ppi). Vector graphics have no resolution, so there is no issue with resizing. I think the advise to not resize was based on not giving PageMaker more to do at the output stage (recalculating the size of placed graphics was thought to involve heavy lifting that you wanted to spare PageMaker from having to do). I don't think anyone still advises that, but if they do, they might see this post and give their reasons why.