Anchoring captions to photos

Question

Hi is there a way to anchor captions to photos? I am anchoring my photos to text then generating static captions. The static captions are always too close to the photo so I drag the caption box down a little.

But when I delete a blank page somewhere in the document, it moves the captions away from their photos following that page I've deleted. I googled solutiosn and it said to group the photos with their captions but InDesign won't let me select a photo and its caption and group them. It will allow me only to select one or the other.

Mike Witherell · Accepted Answer

Just to add to Jan's correct comment: notice two things:

1. Setup the Captions dialog box (Object > Captions > Caption Setup) completely, including the tiny "Group" switch turned on. Also important is to setup a Captions paragraph style and the standoff distance.

2. Most important is the Metadata field. Set it to Description. Thereafter in Adobe Bridge, choose your image asset and add the metadata into that same named Description field and click the tiny check mark Save switch at the bottom of the metadata panel in Bridge.

Once the metadata is added to the image file, back in InDesign you can select the image, right-click it and choose Captions > Generate Live Captions, and a sequence of things interact, giving you a grouped/captioned/styled/positioned image.

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/captions.html

EUFjan · Answer

Hey Ali,your solution is to "group" imagebox and textbox, and luckly there is an option for this. Maybe the translation is different, im on a german client.Go to Object, Captions, Setup Captions... Here you are able to have your captions grouped with the text. Also you can set the space between photo and text.Also, you can set a paragraph-style exspecially for the captions.

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