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Make text variables/live captions breakable like normal text

We work a lot with pictures that get there captions from xmp meta data stored in the pictures.

There is a great feature in InDesign called textvariables/live captions ;) for this… BUT these variables don‘t wrap like normal text :(

Instead we have to convert the live captions to static text to get the proper text warp and in doing so losing our live link to the XMP meta data.

So please enhance this feature to a real feature and allow variables to wrap like normal text. Thanks!

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  • Allen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Frustrating, isn't it?

    One wonders how a feature like this, which essentially BREAKS the whole text variable mechanism for innumerable scenarios, remains unaddressed for so long. Is it because the marketing dept. doesn't think new users will be motivated by such a specialized improvement? If so, perhaps the marketing people don't realize how powerfully NEGATIVE this kind of neglect can be when potential buyers talk to experienced users.

  • MBR commented  ·   ·  Report

    3 years in backlog now,
    hum...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Text variables and live captions are SIGNIFICANTLY USELESS without proper embedding in the specified paragraph styles. This means embedding, of course, but it also means full styling capability as well. The instance of a variable's text should be inserted into the parent text flow before styles are applied.

    The controlling paragraph style can then properly format the inserted text, including character styles, embedded styles, and GREP styles.

  • Mit commented  ·   ·  Report

    Time to bring this to the front wouldn't you say? It's 2020 now....

  • Hill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Still need this!

  • William Wong commented  ·   ·  Report

    Status update on this? It's been like 5 years

  • Uta commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes! I am also waiting for a solution!

  • BS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, please enhance this feature to a real feature and allow variables to wrap like normal text.

  • Stephan Mitteldorf commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature is not a "nice to have" it is a basic feature. So please, enhance it to the next version!

  • dw commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes please, do it.

  • Tim Gouder commented  ·   ·  Report

    @Abhinav Agrawal: Thanks for adding this feature to your Backlog. Can you give us a status update?

    @ALL: Please support to include this feature in InDesign in the very near release.

  • RY commented  ·   ·  Report

    This idea was marked "in backlog" over a year ago. Could we please have a status update?

  • John Landry commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why variables would be force-squished into one line 16 years after the original release of InDesign is beyond me.. :/
    I'm no a developer, but with all the amazing features Adobe has across it's softwares, one would think this'd be an easy fix...

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