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Anonymous
February 21, 2011
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Template for setting up figure captions with images

  • February 21, 2011
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Hi

I received help last week on how I could ensure that my Figure captions stayed with my images, which has been great.

I have generated an image paragraph tag and ensure that it stays with the next paragraph. This works fine,

but my cross-reference of course goes directly to the Figure caption without letting me see the image as well.

How have other people set up their images and captions so that clicking on the cross-reference shows both

the caption and image?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best wishes,

Karen

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    Van Kurtz
    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    February 21, 2011

    Karen,

    How have other people set up their images and captions so that clicking on the cross-reference shows both

    the caption and image?

    I am not sure what you mean be showing both. When the user clicks a link in a PDF, the PDF scrolls so the target is at the top of the screen. If the image is before the caption, then clicking the cross-reference causes the PDF to scroll the image off the screen.

    I have the caption before the image, using only one paragraph tag. The image is inserted at the end of the caption paragraph and set to position below the current line. That way, referencing the caption always shows both because the image is below the caption.

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    Anonymous
    February 21, 2011

    Hi Van,

    Thanks for your response. I probably didn't explain clearly what I meant. I really like having the

    figure caption underneath the image and just wondered if there was some trick that would allow the

    figure caption to be shown beneath the image while at the same time showing the image above it,

    when cross-referenced. It somehow seems to me to be the most common place to have the figure caption.

    If no one else responds I shall go with your method though.

    Many thanks & best wishes,

    Karen

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    Jack DeLand
    Inspiring
    February 21, 2011

    I have inherited hundreds of pages with this problem, and would definitely be interested in any replies. If this method (keeping a figure above the caption) can't be done, is there an automated method of moving the caption text from bottom to above the figure?

    Jack

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