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Adding page numbers to images in a TOC

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    • June 9, 2014 at 12:48 am #68882
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      I’m designing a cookbook that is close to 400 pages long.
      It is arranged per month with recipes appropriate for different times of the year.
      Each section has its own table of contents. I took some recipe images and put them on the side of the TOC and I have a little box in the corner of the image with the page number that recipe can be found on. Is there a way to set a variable within the text box that it would grab the page number that image is found on within the file?
      So if there would be a picture of mushroom soup on page 36, the text box on top of the thumbnail of that same image would automatically get a 36 on it?

      Thanks.

    • June 9, 2014 at 1:56 am #68884
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      You could set it up with cross-references

      Let me know if you need further help in setting it up.

      https://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WS9AD9A0DA-E10F-4d1e-9EB2-999FB61D21E8.html

    • June 9, 2014 at 2:00 am #68885
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      Thanks, Eugene.
      I’m going to take a look at that – never done it before.
      I’ll post if I need more help.

    • June 9, 2014 at 5:20 am #68888
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Yeah, but even then it would be tricky. X-refs only work with text, not images. So you’d have to have some “invisible” text on each page with a picture, and then cross-ref to that.

    • June 9, 2014 at 10:53 am #68898
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      At that point, seems almost as much word as doing it manually… what would be the advantage? In case pages move?

    • June 9, 2014 at 12:43 pm #68899
      Kelly Vaughn
      Participant

      Not sure if this would be helpful, but this sounds similar to something I did a few years ago: “How to Incorporate Chapter Thumbnail Images into an Auto-Generating Table of Contents”

      https://creativepro.com/how-to-incorporate-chapter-thumbnail-images-into-an-auto-generating-table-of-contents.php

    • June 9, 2014 at 11:03 pm #68900
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      Wow, Kelly – that’s quite complex!
      I read through it and now I’m going to try it on my own with my design and see if I can make it work. Its not exactly what I’m trying to do, but maybe I can base something off of this.

      I’ll keep you posted – thanks so much!

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