automatic numbering of images

[BeltofOrion]

Hi all,

I have many dozens of images in my book, divided into chapters. Each image is in an image frame  and has a text frame below it defined by a text style with auto-numeration. Text frame and image frame are grouped. All works well but the numeration seems to be in the order I first insert those images. They are not in the order of the pages. This is a big problem!

How can I arrange this so that the numeration corresponds to the order of appearance? I will do this for each book chapter (ca. 80 pages/chapter,  divided into many sections) but then I will have to put all chapters together and come up with a working numeration! I also have tables and charts, each with a different numbered text style, but with the same problem.Thanks for any help I can get!

Here you can see the problem. On this page the images have only a wrong sequence within the page, but on other pages I can find for example Fig. 2 and then Fig. 16, as I inserted them  in different moments .

[Hilltop]

Perhaps some of the experts will give you directions but to get you started, here are some links to how-to's. 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, BeltofOrion said:

All works well but the numeration seems to be in the order I first insert those images. They are not in the order of the pages.

The numbering has several factors. The main ones for your situation, I think, are:

• First, images on page X would have lower numbers than those on page Y, if X < Y.
• Next, on any given page, you would examine the Layers panel. If there are two images in the Layer stack, the one lower in the stack is assumed to have been created first and will have a number lower than that of an image higher in the Layer stack.

If that does not help you figure it out, it would be useful if you could prepare a sample .afpub document that you can share with us that shows the problem so we can examine it in more detail.

[BeltofOrion]

thank you Walt. The problem is I have more than 500 pp. in this book... There must be another, quicker method? Is it even possible Affinity hasn't thought of this?!

[AllanP]

Just a thought - would Data Merge be a possible solution? Have all the captions and links to the images in a file that is processed by the Data merge function. Meaning that you can arrange the images in the sequence you desire, etc?

I'm no expert on this feature, but maybe looking at some of Elaine Giles' video tutorials https://www.youtube.com/@ElaineGiles/featured among others might help

[MikeTO]

A running list (aka global list) will do what you want so I suspect that it's not set up correctly. You're using a text style which is great, but you should set Restart Numbering to Manual Only.

Once you've done that, the only other thing to do is to ensure the layers are in the right order as Walt pointed out.

Cheers