If you want a caption under a picture or table, you can create a text box under the picture and group the two items together. That will make sure that they stay together when text and layout objects move around.
If you have a lot of pictures with captions, you may want to create a dedicated Style to apply to the text boxes, so the layout is harmonised throughout the document.
Unfortunately there is no function to get automatically numbered captions. Neither can you have an automatically generated Table listing all images or tables.
11 comments:
The inability to to figure, picture and table captions seems like an astonishing oversight, so I assume I'm missing some aspect of the big picture. -Dale
iwork '09 is out and pages still seems to lack any captioning of figures/images.
I followed these instructions, remember that your pasted image (object placement in the Inspector) needs to be 'floating' before you can group it with the text box. I set the group back to inline one this operation was over.
I wish this was heaps easier!
pages '09 without image captions (and separated TOC for those): that's just ridiculous!
The inability to to figure, picture and table captions seems like an astonishing oversight
Hear hear! I am beside myself trying to create a 100 page document in iPages '09 4.0.2 that includes photos with captions.
No easy captioning system, Apple? Really? Photos with captions is a basic task of publishing.
Astonishing oversight it is!
You too can submit the feature request here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
Thanks for the feature request link. The more people request it, the higher it gets moved on their actions list!
crazy! For writing long reports the lack of that feature could be a deal breaker.. back to word?
I to sent them a notice. This was very frustrating while finishing up my final thesis document...
"I was very excited when converting from Microsoft Word to Pages. The transition was fairly easy and loved the features of Pages '09 that came on my Mac Pro 2009. I liked it so much, I purchased the new version for my older macbook pro. Finishing my thesis for my masters degree, I needed to cite images within my Pages document. I had hoped it would be as easy as double clicking the image and add a caption and new style. Unfortunately, this was not so. I feel this is a critical oversight in the citation abilities of Pages '09. I have now reinstalled Word in order to cite images easily and properly with a double click. It was a sad evening for the iWork '09 suite.
Sincerely,
Eric *******
Masters of Architecture"
i'd say, stay with LaTeX..
LaTeX guys, is the only way I know to write a real article.
Pages and Word and OpenOffice are nice if you want to write a 1-page document, with one figure in the middle, without captions, and without equations. If you want to write a birthday party invitation, or an announcement to stick at the entrance of your residence, then fine.
For anything more demanding, LaTeX is the only game in town.
Just don't waste time with other programs. Every time I tried, I had to start over in LaTeX after 1-2 hours of frustration.
Some would tell you that documents should only be written in Sanskrit, and that writing in any other language is only a waste of time. Problem is, only the Sanskrit-fluent can actually achieve it.
While this solution does not solve the issue of creating a table of contents with images included, or automatic numbering, there is a relatively simple way to add a caption:
1) create a text box
2) put the image in the text box
3) type the caption before/after the image
This at least allows for the caption and the image to be kept together while moving the image. Setting the text box to float instead of being inline works best I think.
If, say, you wanted to number the captions (1. 2. 3. or any other list numbering) one could link multiple text boxes (each caption divided by a column break to force it into the next text box). The numbers would be continuous. But since pages doesn't allow one to create there own list formats (which they should do, along with a TOC that sees text boxes), you wouldn't be able to create something that said Image 2.4 automatically.
Post a Comment