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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

You're reading from   Designing the Adobe InDesign Way Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074438
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Gardiner Andy Gardiner
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings 2. Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables 4. Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools 5. Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents 6. Chapter 6: Taking Images Further 7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages 8. Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients 9. Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles 10. Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents 11. Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms 12. Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries 13. Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Using metadata for captions

Image files can contain a variety of hidden data within them, which is known as metadata. This metadata can include details on the content creator, the location and date where the photo was taken, a description of the image, details on the camera used, and much more.

One nice feature of InDesign is that it allows you to use this metadata to generate captions for your images. This could be useful when working with documents that contain lots of images, where the designer may not be familiar with the contents of the images.

In this recipe, we will look at how to use this metadata to automatically generate captions for our images and how we can update these captions when the metadata is changed.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1. You should also be comfortable adding images to your document, as shown in the...

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