binding a caption to a graphic, a workaround

[Amontillado]

This isn't exactly the most convenient, but it seems to work without losing resolution.

Open a temporary document. Drag an image into place. Add a text box below it and type the caption. Adjust the text box and graphic for desired relative positioning. It doesn't matter where they appear on the page.

Export the document to PDF. Open the PDF in Apple Preview, crop it to trim to exact size, and save the adjusted PDF.

Drag the edited PDF into your active Mellel document. Adding a few points of extra space will probably help.

That's not exactly what I would do, though, because I like my styles to work.

In order for style modifications to affect the caption, I would add a page at the end of my document for image plus captions. That way I could adjust sytles, re-export to pdf, re-crop, and re-drag-and-drop.

As far as I can see on my printer, the caption text will resize gracefully if the inserted PDF is resized. The image will lose resolution if it's expanded. Probably the best would be to do size adjustments before exporting to PDF and cropping.

I sense there are better options in the near future.