Captions, Generate a caption from an image – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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Combining text and objects
Last updated 11/16/2011
Note: The options available for above line anchored objects in a text path differ slightly from options for anchored objects
in a regular text frame: the Alignment option is relative to the anchored object marker and the Space Before option is not
available.
Captions
A caption is descriptive text that appears below an image. InDesign provides several methods for creating captions that
display the image metadata you specify. InDesign provides a special caption variable that displays the specified
metadata of an image. If a text frame containing the variable is next to or grouped with the image, the variable displays
the metadata of that image. You can generate a caption from an existing image or while placing it, and you can create
a text frame that contains a caption variable.
For video tutorials on generating captions from metadata, see
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Caption generated from image metadata
Generate a caption from an image
When you generate a caption from an existing image, you can generate either a static caption, which can be modified
only manually, or a live caption, which is updated if the image or the image metadata changes. For example, if you
move a live caption next to a different image, the caption displays metadata from the different image.
When you choose Generate Live Caption, a new variable is generated automatically based on the current caption
settings. For example, if the Description metadata type is selected in the Caption Setup dialog box, a variable called
“Live Metadata Caption: Description” is created.
1 To determine the content and appearance of the caption you generate, choose Object > Captions > Caption
Settings, and specify settings. See “
2 Choose Object > Captions > Generate Live Caption or Generate Static Caption.
Note: When you generate a live caption that displays a long string of text, such as a Description, the caption does not
break across lines because it is a variable. If a caption is compressed into a single line, consider converting a live caption
to a static caption. To convert a live caption to a static caption, select the live caption and choose Object > Captions >
Convert To Static Caption.
You can also generate a static caption while placing an image. In the Place dialog box, select Create Static Captions,
and then place the caption text frame after placing the image.