Hello everyone,
I am a new user of InDesign, which I plan to use to make the volume of illustrations of my thesis. In total, I should have about 500 illustrations and as many boxes of image and text to handle. In addition, it is likely that I will need to add / swap / delete illustrations during the writing process, so I need to be able to both process my illustrations in series and to make changes easily, without having to to move 500 image and text boxes each time.
What I want to achieve is quite basic: to define for each page two image boxes and two text boxes containing the captions of the associated images, each caption indicating the number and the nature of the illustration. For this, I created a master page with a primary text frame made of two linked boxes of text and a paragraph style “figure” starting each time with the numbering “Fig. #:”
So far, everything is fine, the pages are created automatically each time I enter a new legend, followed by the command “skip to the next boxe”. However, I will encounter two problems when I have to add or delete illustrations.
First, when I insert a new page drawn from the master page between two pages whose text boxes are already linked together, the text boxes of the new page are not automatically linked between the existing text boxes of the two initial pages. As a result, if I want my text (here the legends of the illustrations) to run continuously through my three pages, I have to change all the links by hand.
So my first question is: is there a way to automatically update the links so that the text boxes on page 1 are always chained automatically to those on page 2, and so on, even when new pages are inserted or deleted in the middle?
My second question is probably more problematic. I would like to know if it is possible to easily offset all the image and text boxes by half a page, in the event that I have to delete or add a single illustration (or an odd number of illustrations), that is, a way of dragging automatically the image and text boxes from the bottom of page 1 to the top of page 2, the image and text blocks from the top of page 2 to the bottom of page 2, and so on for the other 500 boxes of image and text.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Nils
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