I know this is old hat considering all the excitement going on now with
CC and CS7 coming up. Still, I have to vent a little.
When Adobe introduced the caption feature for objects (when was that?
CS5?), that was a good move. Most pictures need captions, so a built-in
way of generating them is great, no?
Well, yes and no. I mean, for me all the metadata stuff isn't useful,
but I guess for some highly organized, automated workflows it's good.
But, what boggles the mind is that there is NO way of setting the object
style for the caption frame that is created.
I mean, aren't we encouraged to use styles for everything? Object styles
are great -- you can set a default paragraph style, these days you can
auto-expand a text box, you can set text alignment, inset -- in short,
everything you need to define a text box for a caption.
But for some reason (and I've filed several feature requests about this
for over the years), although you can set the paragraph style of the
caption, you can't set the object style of the text frame the caption is in.
That is so feeble.
What is worse (and this borders on a bug, IMHO), is that the text frame
created when you generate a caption does not respect the document's
default text box setting (in fact, very few things respect that setting
-- but that's another story). You know how you can drag that T-in-a-box
(in the object palette) next to any object style you create, to set that
as the default text frame style?
Well, you would have thought that the caption feature would respect that
setting. But no. It doesn't.
Is there anything I'm missing here? Any way to tell the caption feature
what object style to use? If there is, I'd really like to know.
Meanwhile, the quickest way is to assign an shortcut to the object
style, and then, after generating the caption, selecting that text frame
and applying the object style. Kind of klunky.
Thanks,
Ariel