Keep pagination layers on top of everything else?

[Cooner]

Hey friends! Sorry, I haven't been able to find anything on this … or I missed it somehow.

I'm assembling comic books for print and PDF in Publisher: Setting up the proper page size and bleed, importing full-page art files with all the art and dialog on them, laying the out in the proper order then using Publisher's features for more typesetting-heavy pages like intoduction or foreword, indicia, back page text, and so on … and pagination.

It's working really well, but I have one question … For pagination I created a master spread that simply has the proper margins, and then two text boxes at the bottom of either page for the page number, to the far left and to the far right. When I create new pages and create a frame and import the page art, though, it seems by default those new elements always appear ABOVE the pagination layers from the master page. I have to go thru and manually move the master folder from the bottom to the top of the layers palette on each page or spread.

Not a HUGE deal, but kind of a pain. I'm wondering, is there any way to tell Publisher to default the master page layers to either to either the top or the bottom, that I'm missing? 

(Note: I apologize if this is posted twice. I went to start a new post and this popped up, so I guess I may have never submitted it for some reason.)

[Joachim_L]

4 hours ago, Cooner said:

I'm wondering, is there any way to tell Publisher to default the master page layers to either to either the top or the bottom, that I'm missing?

I do not know a method to stick the Master Layer to the top. What you can do is making a new layer on the page and moving it below the Master Layer. From my observation any new element on the page will be inside this new layer (beneath the Master Layer).

[carl123]

5 hours ago, Cooner said:

I have to go thru and manually move the master folder from the bottom to the top of the layers palette on each page or spread.

You can move the master folder from the bottom to the top of the layers palette for all pages at the same time by using the Edit Linked function found on any normal page by right-clicking on the Master Layer on that page.

So, rather than doing it for each page you create, you can just wait until you add all your pages then move the Master Page Layer once at the end, if you prefer.

PS. An "Always on top" option may be a good feature request for master page layers

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, Cooner said:

When I create new pages and create a frame and import the page art, though, it seems by default those new elements always appear ABOVE the pagination layers from the master page.

Is your art always the same size? If so, put a placeholder on the Master Page itself, rather than creating the frame on each document page. Other than that, Carl's suggestion is probably easiest.

[Cooner]

Walt, Carl123:

Thanks for the suggestions. For a comic book the files are all the same size (basically the entire page plus bleed); I usually just drop the images directly onto the page, but I suppose I could add a frame to the master page and then drop the images into those frames on each page. Or if I'm lazy, use the "Edit Linked" function mentioned to do them all at once at the end, which is only a minor hassle instead of a medium one. XD

That said, very often towards the back of the book I will have a few pages with text and inset images of varying sizes and positions. So I'd still suggest that some form of an "Always On Top" feature on the master pages someday would still be useful for pagination.  Anyone?

Thanks again for the help!

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, Cooner said:

I'd still suggest that some form of an "Always On Top" feature on the master pages someday would still be useful for pagination.  Anyone?

I can support that, for now you could try using a picture frame on the Master Page underneath the Page numbers.