I’m looking for something similar that can just apply the outer frame + a centered textframe underneith so people can put in their own caption. Most pics won’t have the proper IPTC tags, it would be far nicer if it just worked with any random picture one wants to add.

Can someone tell me how to edit it (or hint to another version) so that pictures don’t need the metadata?

regards
Andreas

In fact, clicking on the image with the Direct Selection tool won’t select the image anymore (as it usually does) because there’s a big text frame in the way. You have to use the Object > Select > Next Object (or use the next/previous object buttons in the Control panel) to select the other object inside the frame (in this case, the image itself).

So, no, Roland, you can’t use this to put the text outside the frame because the text is literally inside the frame.

Great script, Dave, and a great find, Bob! Thank you for sharing it.

You can also increase the height of the graphic frame so that the text appears below (or above) the image, producing a result identical in look to traditional captions/figure labels.

Dave

The thing I like about Dave’s script is that while it was originally written to add captions it can be revised or just used as a jumping off point toward other things.

You’re not limited to using this for captions. For instance, you can fill that entire frame with text and drop the opacity of the graphic for special affects similar to using a background graphic on a web page.

As always, let your imagination and creativity be your guide.

Here’s my €0.02 on graphic labels.

I tend to use the Label Graphic that came with InD, there is alos a Label Graphics Menu, which adds the Label Graphic to the contextual menu. So you can easily select any image and insert the text, using various ways, file name, path, xml data and something else.

You can assign a style with the dialog box and it even creates a layer called labels in the document. The only thing I can’t see it doing is applying an object style, which of course would be handy.

This useful script creates a caption frame based on an associated object style with the caption text itself - which is extracted from the Discription field in the metadata of each picture.

You can choose the height of the frame and the distance it should sit from the picture frame and since you can also choose an object style for that frame, that means you can also define the paragraph style for that caption (since you can append that style to the object style).

You can check that episode at http://www.adobetv.com to see how it works, and you can find the script here: http://tinyurl.com/2nb44r