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I have a tall image that I'd like to display along the right hand side of a page, but have text flow along the left side. The image is obviously rectangular in dimensions, but has a large transparent section that I'd like to flow text over.

I've shown this below in the (Visio) picture to show the effect. The shaded area shows the 'interesting' bit of my picture. The lower left is basically white/transparent and I'd like the text to flow over.

Is this possible please?

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ksr78
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Like this 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\def\tikzmark#1{\tikz[remember picture,overlay]\node[inner sep=0pt](#1){};}


\begin{document}

\leavevmode\unskip\hfill\rlap{\hspace{6mm}\tikzmark{A}}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[inner sep=0pt,anchor=north east]  at (A) 
    {\includegraphics[width=.6\textwidth,height=0.7\textheight]{example-image}};
\end{tikzpicture}

\noindent\begin{minipage}[t]{0.4\textwidth}
\lipsum[2]
\end{minipage} 

\noindent\begin{minipage}[t]{0.7\textwidth}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{minipage} 

\end{document}

enter image description here

Salim Bou
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  • A problem with this solution may be that you need to manually decide which text goes into the first minipage (at the top), and which goes into the second (below). In particular you'll have to handle line-breaks spanning that boundary manually. An alternative solution may be to use \parshape for as many lines as are likely to fit at the top. – ShreevatsaR Dec 21 '16 at 03:45