Photo Caption Length Limit?

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Photo Caption Length Limit?

I like to use sometimes lengthy [probably 2-3 sentences max] captions with photos, and can't find a way to do it with iWeb.

There seems to be a built-in limitation, regardless of text size/placement. I would rather avoid the blog idea where you have to show one picture, then write your text, then show another etc., as I want to post galleries of pictures.

Any suggestions? I haven't found a service yet with .mac or anyone else that seems to allow editing of galleries for placement, and yet also long enough [more than one sentence on average] captions.

Thanks!

G5 Dual 2G Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.75G Ram

G5 Dual 2G, Mac OS X (10.4.7), 1.75G Ram

Posted on Jul 9, 2006 11:38 PM

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Answer 1

James Tseng

Level 6

12,120 points

Jul 10, 2006 6:00 AM in response to PointsBeyond

PointsBeyond,

I don't know if you have tried this already or not....and I'm also not sure if this will provide you with enough space.... But make sure that you have maximized the Caption Height in your Photo template page.

1. Select one of your thumnail photos
2. open the Inspector, click on the Shapes tab
3. at the top under Layout you will see a slider for Caption Height.

You can adjust this so that you get more room (more caption height) between rows in your photo template so that you can fit more caption. You can also change the font size to fit more words as well.

Note: This only works on a photo template page, and you must first select one of your thumbnails (click on the image, not the text/caption) for the Layout/Caption Height option to become visible in the Inspector.

Again, I'm not sure if this is enough for your purposes....but let me know.

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Answer 2

Cyclosaurus

Level 6

12,915 points

Jul 10, 2006 12:02 PM in response to PointsBeyond

That's just it, it's a caption. Sounds like what you want is full description, and that is not within iWeb.

There is work around, but you have to do post processing (every time you publish).

What you can do is splitting up your photos, by using multiple photo groups. Doing so, allow you adjust spacing between thumbnail rows, and you can insert text boxes for your descriptions.
A post processing is needed to consolidate the photo groups into one.

ex: http://www.geocities.com/hac.le@sbcglobal.net/Arts.html

There are two photo groups in the page, notice the two text lines (bottom part) between the photo groups, it can be a full paragraph, just a matter of space out the thumbnails.

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Answer 3

PointsBeyond Author

Level 1

10 points

Jul 10, 2006 1:11 PM in response to James Tseng

Thanks for the specifics--and I tried that...but short of making the font so small it's unreadable, I don't think that works. As for captions being...well...captions, let me give you an idea what most photo captions are like length-wise:

"German midfielder David Odonkor, left, and forward Lukas Podolski pose as they celebrate with fans at the 'Fan Mile' in Berlin on Sunday July 9, 2006. Thousands of German soccer fans celebrate their team after Germany beat Portugal 3-1 at the third place match of the soccer World Cup on Saturday."

Breaking up the photos so that more text can be entered inbetween doesn't then tie the specific caption to each photo. It just seems pretty obvious to me--and simple, in terms of programming--to allow the user to set how big [in character numbers] we want the associated text to be, instead of just the apparent rudimentary space they allow now.

After searching for a program that would allow this--from iDisk/.mac to Flikr etc., I thought iWeb would be the answer--but apparently not.

When Apple touts itself as being so photo-supportive, with all of it's software--I don't know why none of the applications supports more than minimal text per photo. They've advanced to photo-casting, etc., but if I want to attach what I deem to be regular-sized captions, I have to resort to the very old-fashioned, time-consuming embedded email methods to send them out to others.

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