Captions for images

[funwithstuff]

Loving Affinity Publisher so far, but one total deal killer for a couple of my clients is the absence of captions. In InDesign, I can automatically create static captions based on the image name (or any other metadata property). This is a massive time saver for creating image-heavy catalogues and there's no equivalent feature in Publisher, so please consider adding it?

Along the same lines, a tool for creating grids of picture frames would be terrific, and there's room to improve over InDesign's tricky method (arrows while holding the mouse button) too.

Many thanks for what you've done so far — it's great.

[Aammppaa]

Power Duplicate will create a grid of anything very quickly. 

Or use the Guides Manager to set Column (and Row) guides for easy snapping. 

[funwithstuff]

2 hours ago, Aammppaa said:

Power Duplicate will create a grid of anything very quickly. 

Or use the Guides Manager to set Column (and Row) guides for easy snapping. 

Power duplicate is roughly a match for Transform Again in Illustrator, and it's not nearly as good as InDesign's "Gridify" feature. (In fact, Illustrator doesn't have a great way to make grids either.)

The way InDesign builds grids is that you press the arrow keys while you're dragging a shape. Up/down change the number of rows, Left/right change the number of columns, Command-arrows change the gaps, and when you let the mouse go, the entire grid appears, taking up exactly the amount of space you chose. The same thing while you're placing multiple images places those images in a grid. Alternatively, there's also Edit > Step and Repeat which can make grids instantly.

The guide manager is probably the best way to get the job done here, but it's not much fun to poke around in dialog  boxes.