Caption setting:Why paragraph style, not object style?

[dublove]

Caption setting:

Why paragraph style, not object style?

Its "displacement" is not very easy to use, I generally still need object style to control the caption.

If you can use object styles directly, it's easy? Because object styles can call paragraph styles, there are more settings.

I hope Adobe will pay attention to this problem.

[vladan saveljic]

this link is much better for feature requests

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

[Eugene Tyson]

Not the answer you're looking for - but here's something you can do to change all.

In the Caption Setup - set the offset to something like .001234

Then use Find/Change and search for Object with the specified offset and apply the object style.

[dublove]

I want to automatically apply the style when generating the caption.

Save one step.

[Eugene Tyson]

I understand - but it's not possible - until it's released this is a workaround. 

[Laubender]

Hi 喜狼_edny,

setting the object style when using InDesign's caption feature is a long-standing feature request.

Vote for this, I just did:

Object Styles for Generated Captions
Kate Basart, November 09, 2017

"It would be really helpful when generating captions to be able to assign an object style in addition to a paragraph style. (Even better if there were multiple caption styles to choose from...)"

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/32199370-ob...

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[rob day]

Hi Uwe, I wonder if it could be scripted? The caption text frame should have an index of 0 when it is created, so here I’m invoking the Generate Live Caption menu item, getting the caption text frame, and applying syles. Haven’t tested much so there could be complications:

var p=app.activeWindow.activePage;
var f = File.openDialog("Place");

//make styles
var ps = makeParaStyle(app.activeDocument, "Caption");
ps.properties = {basedOn:"[No Paragraph Style]", appliedFont:"Myriad Pro	Regular", pointSize:8, leftIndent:0};

var cos = makeObjStyle(app.activeDocument, "Caption Frame");
cos.properties = {basedOn:"[None]", appliedParagraphStyle:ps, strokeColor:"[None]", strokeWeight:"0"};

var placedImage = p.place(f);
placedImage[0].parent.select();
var makeCap =  app.menuActions.itemByName("Generate Live Caption")
makeCap.invoke();

//the last added text frame has an index of 0
var cap = getCaptionFrame(p.textFrames);
cap.texts[0].appliedParagraphStyle = ps;
cap.appliedObjectStyle = cos;


/**
* Gets the last text frame added 
* @Param a list of text frames 
* @Return text frame 
* 
*/
function getCaptionFrame(fl){
    var tf;
    for (var i = 0; i < fl.length; i++){
        if (fl[i].index == 0) {
            tf = fl[i]; 
        } 
    } 
    return tf 
}


/**
* Makes a new named ObjectStyle 
* @Param the document to add the style to 
* @Param style name 
* @Returns the new object style 
*/

function makeObjStyle(d, n){
    var os;
    try {
        d.objectStyles.add({name:n});
    }catch(e) {
        os = d.objectStyles.itemByName(n);
    } 
    return d.objectStyles.itemByName(n);
}

/**
* Makes a new named Paragraph Style 
* @Param the document to add the style to 
* @Param style name 
* @Returns the new paragraph style 
*/

function makeParaStyle(d, n){
    var ps;
    try {
        d.paragraphStyles.add({name:n});
    }catch(e) {
        ps = d.paragraphStyles.itemByName(n);
    } 
    return d.paragraphStyles.itemByName(n);
}

[TᴀW]

I asked for this years ago, when they first introduced captions. Baffled why they didn't create the feature this way in the first place!

But @Eugene Tyson 's idea is excellent, actually. You can save an object search query to apply object styles to all captions in this way with just a couple of clicks!

Ariel