Live Caption is a useful InDesign feature that more people should consider using. Unfortunately, beginners often feel that this is a limited, non-intuitive feature that they would rather avoid. There are, however, plenty of tips and tricks that can make Live Caption a more useful feature that will add value to your documents while also saving you time. Watch this online video to learn how to make Live Caption a more accessible, useful feature.
Anne-Marie Concepcion: Live Captions are one of my favorite new features in CS5,…but I find that they are kind tedious to set up and use.…So I want to show you a bunch of really neat features that hopefully will…motivate you to use the Live Caption feature set for all your projects.…Let me back up a little bit and explain what a Live Caption is.…I'm just going to go over it briefly.…If you want to learn more about Live Captions in depth, then you need to watch…InDesign CS5 Essentials or the new features in CS5, which have a number of…videos that discuss Live Captions.…
But essentially you start out with a placed image and you create a Live Caption…by selecting the image, going up to the Object menu, going down to Captions, and…choose Generate Live Caption.…It's going to actually create a text frame that contains metadata about…the selected image.…Now if you're wondering what metadata is it going to put in there, then you…check Caption Setup first.…So if you go to Caption Setup, it's going to use your most recently used piece of metadata.…
David Blatner
Anne-Marie Concepción
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7/20/2017Released
8/25/2011New techniques will be added to the collection every other week, so check back early and often. Find more tips and tricks at indesignsecrets.com.
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