captions

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September 15, 2022
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In indesign CS6, I'm using links to keep caption and photo together on an image-heavy long book. Since the captions aren't in the metadata of these images, I can replace the "name.jpg" with the caption if it's one line or two - but sometimes these captions are 4-5 lines long. Is there something I'm missing? Or another way of doing this? Thanks!

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James Gifford—NitroPress

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InDesign's caption system is absolutely fabulous for completely managed environments like archives and magazines, where a ton of metadata including full captions are routinely embedded in image files. The feature is all but worthless for everyone else. (No, I don't consder going out and editing metadata as part of a layout a sensible proposition.)

For print, the best way to manage captions is to use an Object Style for the graphic and a dedicated paragraph style, or set of styles, for the captions. It's relatively easy to create such a set that work together visually, keep the elements connected and allow style adjustments for easy tweaking.

You can also group image+caption text box and anchor the result.

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leilagoldenAuthor

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I never thanked you! Both for validating my frustration and offering another option. I'm now tending to label my photos with my caption as I place them, which has been working, unless they're very long.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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We're all here to share the nitty-gritty of "how to."

It might help if you develop a set of styles, both object and paragraph, and carefully maintained in a hierarchy for easy management, that cover each of the basic layout situations. For instance, I often have styles for no caption, a one line caption, a multiline caption, and then variants to accommodate a source paragraph or not after the caption. You might create separate styles for shorter captions and the long ones, as well as object styles for those image frames, so that each flows and positions optimally.

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