I have had this problem several times, and the only way I've been able to solve it is in the Ancored Frame menu:
and selecting "page."
So here is a graphic with no caption on page 28, because for no reason, the caption has jumped to the next page. I've tried shrinking the graphic to the size of a pea, and there is PLENTY of space on the page for the caption, but it STILL jumps to the next page!
And here is the caption on the next page:
How do I fix this?
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There are any number of ways to accomplish caption-below-figure in FM. The simple an obvious one, Anchored Frame above current paragraph, does not exist. So here's one way to do it. This example presumes that what's desired are centered figures & captions.
Two task-specific Paragraph Formats are needed, arbitrarily named: FigureAnchor and Caption.
For the test I ran, these were derived from the current Body format, with the following differences:
¶FigureAnchor:
/Basic\
Alignment: Center
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Hi Susan,
I have a different approach for figure captions than Bob. It works always and it is very stable! You will put the figure into a table with only a single cell (means one row and one column). The figure title is the table title of this title.
In a separate anchor paragraph create a table with a single row and a single column. Set the width to the width of your main text frame. Set the table title to below (or above, as you like) the table.
In the table title set the paragraph format to t
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I think there is some terminology confusion and I believe you may not have turned on text symbols.
In order to work with anchored frames:
- Go to View and turn on "Text Symbols". This will display all the typographic markup and also the frame anchor.
- Put your cursor in an empty paragraph
- Click Insert->Anchored Frame and this dialogue will pop up. These settings are the most common for inserting an anchored frame
- Click "New Frame" This is what the frame anchor looks like. If you select it by
By accessability he means the use of screen readers. You can have a pdf document read aloud to you by using a screen reader. Creating documents that the screen reader software can understand and read correctly, can be challenging sometimes. The software can not "see" a graphic in a document. It needs to be told, that there is a graphic and you need to tell the reader what the graphic shows. A screen reader reads the text from one end to another, but if it encounters a table with a number of colu
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