Import Images to pages and place filename as text

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February 20, 2024
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Hello everyone,

I am looking for a way to import multiple images and place each on a standard A4-page with the filename as the title in a text box below the image. Does InDesign offer this or a similar functionality or will this need scripting (which I am not familiar with)?

Thanks!

Correct answer jmlevy

InDesign comes with a script that does exactly what you need: Image Catalog.

Go to the Window menu > utilities > scripts. Then open the samples folder > JavaScript. Doubleclick on the ImageCatalog script.

rob day

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Hi @32492357 , You can also try this catalog script. It puts the captions on a layer, and applies an Object and Paragraph Style, which you can adjust as needed. If your caption text is in the metadata Description field, you can select Description:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/ade2b284-c8f0-4828-5974-bdce11b7e190

The dialog:

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Anonymous

Thank you! Both options work on a basic level and already save me quite some time!

I wonder now how to format the captions more nicely.

1) I would like to always remove the file ending automatically (e.g. ".jpg")

2) The caption should have parts in bold and parts in regular weight, e.g. the artist's name and image's title should be in bold letters, the rest of the info in regular like in "Edvard Munch - The Scream, 1910, oil and tempera etc.". I guess this is hardly possibly using the file name and might work using metadata?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@32492357

1) I would like to always remove the file ending automatically (e.g. ".jpg")

You would need to run Find&Change manually.

2) The caption should have parts in bold and parts in regular weight, e.g. the artist's name and image's title should be in bold letters, the rest of the info in regular like in "Edvard Munch - The Scream, 1910, oil and tempera etc.". I guess this is hardly possibly using the file name and might work using metadata?

If format is constant - there is ALWAYS comma before the year - you could use GREP Styles - as part of the defintion of the ParagraphStyle applied to the Caption.