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Brilliant!  I've just tested this and it looks great... a small but very worthwhile improvement.

Tomorrow, a friend is testing the directions of the route in question after which I plan to publish its existance more widely... the timeing is perfect.

Many thanks.

Hi Martyn - the caption position bug has been fixed and you should also now see any symbols or labels before the directions text (they do work better in this position).

Captions truncate in the mobile view even when under 60 characters.

I count 45 characters before truncation for the photo of George Marshall (direction point 7) in the route I've been referenceing.

Thanks Martyn. The 60 character limit on photo captions was probably set to ensure that it displays correctly on all screen sizes, including mobile devices. I think we may be able to help with the other two issues, but will need to investigate.

PS If you were able to include forum post 3056 at the same time, that would be great (assuming you agree with the proposal.)  Printouts of the same route (2015037) show why I feel this would be a good idea.

https://www.plotaroute.com/posts/3056/D/1

Best regards, Martyn

This is the route I'm working on: https://www.plotaroute.com/route/2015037?units=miles

You will find it contains several examples of the issue.

I did not think that "Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland" was an unduly long caption.  It fits easily within the width of the photo when typing it in.  Is there a reason for constraining captions to just 60 characters?

Hi Martyn  - photo captions are limted to 60 characters, so it may have been truncated when it was saved. We'll look at changing it to prevent more than 60 being entered in the first place. Can you share a link to a route with the othe issue (about the caption being append to the directions rather than being shown on a separate line)?  

Further to previous post:

On further investigation, it looks as though the photo caption text is being truncated after entry.  I can type it all in and it appears to have been accepted but only the fist part of the text appears to be saved. This is not immediately apparent but becomes so when printing the route with directions.

I've noted a slightly differnt problem with text placement in directions that include a photo with a caption.  In this case the text of the appended caption is being truncated.

I'm continuing to look at options for reliably including photos alongside long directions.  I'm concluding that one way may be to add the photo into a separate direction point immediately after the direction with long text (rather than in it.)  I've tried this and surfaced another minor, assoicated 'bug'. If the photo has a caption, this is appended to the directions rather than being printed on a separate line.  I've tried adding a new line to the end of the direction and this does not seem to make any difference.

I've tried to include a screen shot below.  Not sure if I've been successful.

Yes, I'm sure you are right. It's just that Plotaroute suites the use case so well.  I know of no other tool that could do quite the same job.  However, I am aware of just how many improvemetns are there for potential developoment, so I understand.  I will try writing some notes to explain to people how best to use the 'Print Using Browser' option and then produce a paper copy.

I think your use case is probably quite rare Martyn - very few people add as much text as you in the directions. Having said, that, yes, in an ideal world the default print option would cater for this. 

Yes, 'Print With Browser' produces a complete output but leaves blank spaces at the front of some direction points.  I'm also thinking that this is a soultion that might be OK for me but I'm sharing these routes with a wide variery of people many of whom are barey computer literate.  Is it acceptable for them to find that the prominant 'Print' feature does not do a complete job? 

Thanks again for the feedback Martyn. This is another one where using the Print With Browser option seems to address it.

I have some unusually long directions in my latest route.  If they grow to a page in length, they are truncated rather than being continued to the next page.

As an example see: Route 873854

If a photo happens to be included and is too long to fit on the current page, it is dropped altoghether.

Direction 21 in the above route illustrates this.