I have about 4 different formats for images that I am importing into inDesign as part of a book project.
I was hoping to create an object that would contain A photo/caption and a graphic element, then create another object that shows only part of a photo with no caption and a little graphic element, then another object that has just a full page photo.
Then as I lay out the page, I figured I could drag an instance of one of these objects onto my page where I could customize lt (like symbols in Illustrator that you break the link to or even Gutenberg Blocks in WordPress). The idea is that this would preserve consistency of layout in the content pages.
I've looked at Object Styles and that doesn't cut it. Does InDesign offer any sort of "asset management" or "symbol pallet" or "content template" to do this? Does anyone know of a plugin that does this?
Also, is does anyone know of a plugin that would either create a pallet or modify the pages pallet that would allow you to group pages into visual hierarchies. It would be great to grab all the pages in a chapter and drop them in a fold called Chapter X, then grap all of the Chapters and put them in a Sections folder. Or even just ways of separating the frontmatter from the backmatter from the main content. Are there any tools like this out there?
Thanks in advance for any suggestons. Also, if there are some really useful plugins that I am missing, feel free to let me know. I'm just returning to inDesign after years of focus on Illustrator and Photoshop, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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