Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 245)

239 USING INDESIGN
Combining text and objects
Last updated 11/16/2011
Specify caption setup options
Use the Captions Settings dialog box to determine the content and formatting of captions you generate. These captions
affect only future captions you generate, not existing captions.
1 Choose Object > Captions > Caption Settings.
2 Choose the metadata you want to include, and specify the text that appears before and after the metadata.
3 To include multiple rows of metadata, click the plus sign icon.
4 Specify the following options, and click OK.
Text Before / Text After The text that appears before or after the specified metadata.
Metadata Choose the metadata option, such as Description or City, from the list.
Alignment Specify where to place the caption in relation to the image.
Offset Specify how far apart the caption text is from the edge of the text frame next to the image.
Paragraph Style Specify a paragraph style to apply to the caption text. If you want the caption to include automatic
numbering, such as “Figure 1,” “Figure 2,” and so on, include the numbering in the paragraph style. See “ Create
running captions for figures and tables ” on page 283.
Layer Specify to which layer the caption belongs.
Group Caption With Image Indicate whether the image frame and caption text frame are grouped.
Create captions using variables
When a text frame containing a caption variable is adjacent to or grouped with an image, the caption variable displays
the metadata of that image.
Caption variables
A. Text frame with caption variable not next to image B. Text frame moved next to image
1 If necessary, define the caption variable you want to use. See “ Define caption variables ” on page 240.
2 Create the text frame to be used for the caption.
3 With the insertion point in the text frame, choose Type > Text Variables > Insert Variable, and then choose the
caption variable you want to include. Insert as many caption variables as needed.
4 Move the caption text frame next to an image frame, or group the caption text frame with the image frame.
If the caption variable is blank, edit the image metadata, and then use the Links panel to update the image. To edit
image metadata, see “
Edit metadata in image files ” on page 110.
A B