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magnificent_cause16B8
magnificent_cause16B8
Inspiring
February 24, 2025
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Help with image TOC and sources (and SW advice)

  • February 24, 2025
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Hi everybody,

I would like to make a list in which my images appear with the sources. For example, I have the following figure caption ‘Fig. 7: Germany physical’. The source is ‘Botaurus-stellaris, CC BY-SA 3.0 Via Wikimedia Commons’. The figure number should automatically appear in the list next to the source. Should I create an Excel file where I enter the caption and the source? And then what? Any suggestion?

Or will I have to complete it manually just before printing?
By the way, this time also I have some good advice: my editor's graphic designer has sent me two screenshots made with ID Tasker for Indesign, must be a great tool as far as he tells me and I can understand (see pictures attached).

Thanks in advance for your help!

Marlene

 

Correct answer Robert at ID-Tasker

Thanks @magnificent_cause16B8  😉

 

If you have a list of texts that should be matched to your images - not a problem at all.

 

Yes, @Barb Binder, I've already helped Marlene a lot privately - free of charge - not sure why do you have to be so snippy with me?

 

4 replies

Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
February 24, 2025

Here is a little simulation - as I don't have links.

 

First, I've downloaded image descriptions - like this one:

 

Then, I've loaded Endnotes Story - as a sample.

 

Then made few extra steps - extracting numbers from the "Bullets and Numbering" properties of the found results and converted to numbers. Plus added numbers to Paragraphs from ENDnotes Story (but I forgot to remove Title of the Endnotes Story so everything is shifted by 1).

 

Then, sorted by those numbers  - "EXTRA 2" + "TYPE" columns - so they'll be nicely interleaved: 

 

 

 

All of the above - can be done as a single Task - it was just easier for testing - so one click instead of 6x separate.

 

Now it's just a case of creating a "report".

 

 

IDT isn't free - but anyone can test full version for free for a few days - just ask 😉 

Any extra functionality - will be added FoC. 

 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-TaskerCorrect answer
Legend
February 24, 2025

Thanks @magnificent_cause16B8  😉

 

If you have a list of texts that should be matched to your images - not a problem at all.

 

Yes, @Barb Binder, I've already helped Marlene a lot privately - free of charge - not sure why do you have to be so snippy with me?

 

Barb Binder
Community Expert
Barb BinderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 24, 2025

Since you are using a script, I'd reach out to the script developer to see what they recommend.

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 24, 2025

Don't enter these information in an Excel ist. Enter it in the meta information of the image. You can do it in their programs, but it is easier to do in Bridge.

You can draw these caption from the images when you place them. With the paragraph numbering you can number it. From those informtion you can create a toc based on these paragraphs.

magnificent_cause16B8
magnificent_cause16B8Author
Inspiring
February 25, 2025

That sounds good, thank you. So, once I have done that, I link the caption to the source of the picture, so that they keep staying together, right?
If so, would the easiest way be a hyperlink? 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
February 25, 2025

@magnificent_cause16B8

 

@Willi Adelberger's advice will work only partially. 

 

You'll get only captions - then you'll have to add manually list of external sources anyway. 

 

And repeat that every time anything changes - number of images, their order or if text reflows and their location on pages. 

 

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