Is there a way to generate live captions with multiple metadata tags on one line?

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April 4, 2024
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I need to generate captions for a list of about 400 images. Each image is in a folder depending on its category. I want to generate captions containing the category (Folder 0) and filename (Name). They would look like this…

As far as I can tell, if I want to use more than one metadata tag in a caption I have to put each tag on its own line. That means the captions look like this…

That means I can't use live captions. I have to generate static captions then use Find/Change to fix the breaks. Is there another way, preferably one that lets me use live captions which I can put on the parent page?

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Eugene Tyson

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You can use Text Variables to insert Metadata Captions - I think the text frame just needs to touch off the element to capture the data.

And then you can put multiple captions on the same line.

Scott Falkner

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What I want is to setup live captions so that, when I select an image and apply live captions the caption is created as I want it. At the moment it's not a big deal to use Find/Change to remove the paragraph break between lines, but I was hoping I had overlooked a way to skip that step as it seems like a basic feature. Think of the photo captions you see in newspapers and magazines giving credit to the photographer and the copyright year. I would have expected that to be something that could be applied with one command. Seems not.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

I see - now I get what you want here - my bad.

I can sorta do it

I set the Text Frame Options to 2 with gutter of 0

with nothing selected so it became the default for text frames.

Then genereated the caption and got this

You can do something similar with Paragraph Style - using Split into Columns

But it gives the same result

I tried making the Object Style being default for Text Frames -but it doesn't stick and you have to clear the overrides.

- Guess it's a feature request so.

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