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Roannais
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June 7, 2011
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Changing position of figure captions (legends)

  • June 7, 2011
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Hi, I'm using FrameMaker 9, and I have a question about changing the position of figure captions. Currently in all our docs, figure captions are placed above the figure (above the anchored frame) to which they apply, but the powers that be (much to my annoyance) have decreed that they should appear below the figure. Does anyone know a way of changing the position of all anchored frames in relation to the caption paragraph without having to do it manually for each one?

Thanks,

Jim

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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    June 7, 2011

    It probably could be done in FrameScript. I'm sure someone familiar with

    FrameScript will pop in with a definitive answer.

    Instead of setting up graphics and captions as two separate stand-alone

    paragraphs, a preferable method is to create a one-cell table. Put the

    graphic in the cell, turn on table titles and put the caption in the

    title. This keeps the caption and graphic together, and gives you the

    option of changing the title easily from above or below the graphic by

    changing the table format.

    Also note that there may be an important reason that the caption was

    placed above the graphic. If there are cross-references to captions,

    when you click the cross-reference in a PDF, and the caption is below

    the graphic, the link jumps to the caption, displaying it at the top of

    the page. The associated graphic, placed above, is left inconveniently

    out of view. Readers usually want to see both the caption and associated

    graphic. Placing captions above graphics makes PDF cross-references

    display both.

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    RoannaisAuthor
    Participant
    June 7, 2011

    Hi Mike,

    You're right about the cross-ref problem and the graphic being out of view, one of the reasons I'm annoyed at being asked to change the caption positions. And re the suggestion on using table cells for graphics, good idea, but I'll have to change thousands of graphics by hand if I go down that route... hopefully somebody will suggest a FrameScript solution as you say (though in fact I'd prefer to be told there's no easy way of solving the 'problem' of caption positioning, so I can reasonably refuse to change the current setup!).

    Thanks for your help,

    James

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 7, 2011

    Use your favorite search engine,

    restricted to site or domain: forums.adobe.com,

    to search for: "framemaker" and "caption".

    For example, this recent shaggy dog thread:
    A way to label graphics?

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/781397?tstart=0

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