Live references to images/figures
I need each image to have a caption which begins with "Figure 1: blah blah" and if I move the image, the caption should automatically re-number. I think I have the automatic re-numbering working using paragraph styles, but doing that seems to prohibit the other things I need to do, such as...
I need to have each image coupled with an in-text reference, like. "As seen in Figure 1, blah blah blah." And if I move the image, again, not only would the caption re-number but the in-text reference to it would re-number automatically, too.
Finally, that in-text reference should automatically also be a link, so if the text is clicked on, the person shoots down to the referenced image.
Lisa D
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inAdobitably commented
Ideally we could also cross ref to anchored images themselves (when we use live captions) so we don’t have to add text captions to every figure/image.
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Julie
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My workaround is to create a text box with the name of the image, make the text invisible, and group it to the image so they move together. It is not elegant but it works.
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Anonymous
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I need this too!! How to make InDesign do this????
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Andrewtb333
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I believe you can already do items 1 and 2: check out this link:
https://indesignsecrets.com/figure-numbering-in-indesign-and-cross-references-to-them.phpI think in a PDF it will make clickable cross-references: not sure about the ID doc itself. I tend to do this sort of stuff in Word these days (oh the horror!).