Publisher Jump Line

[Mark Erbaugh]

Is it possible to have a jump line stick to the bottom (or top) of the text frame and not move as the text in the frame is modified?

[Old Bruce]

11 minutes ago, Mark Erbaugh said:

Is it possible to have a jump line stick to the bottom (or top) of the text frame and not move as the text in the frame is modified?

What is a "jump line"?

[MikeTO]

Hi @Mark Erbaugh and welcome to the forums.

The short answer is no because to create a jump line you need to insert the Next Frame Page Number field and that has to be in the story to work. If you were to put it outside of the frame so that it stayed in place as you edited the text it wouldn't know what page the story continued on.

There are several workarounds you could consider but I don't know if they'd be more work than you'd want. For example, if the frame on page 1 continued on page 17, you could draw a small shape on page 17, choose Layer > Hide to make it invisible, and choose Text > Interactive > Insert Anchor to add an anchor to it. Then you could draw a separate frame below the page 1 frame and add a cross-reference to the anchor on page 17, creating a manual jump line. This would work even if you added or removed pages before page 17.

[Mark Erbaugh]

Thanks for the replies.

Old Bruce:

A "jump line" is a line of text at the top or bottom of a text frame that indicates the page of the previous or next text frame in the story: "continued on/from page XX."

MikeTO:

I was hoping there was a built-in tool, but now I know there isn't. I'm going to try something similar to your suggestion. I want to group two text fields together. The top one for the story and the bottom one for the jump line. Each frame will link to the corresponding next group of frames. The jump line frame will just have a story of "continued on <page for next frame>" repeated several times and will be sized to only display one line.

Instead of grouping the frames, I considered embedding the jump line text frame in the main story text frame, but on my Mac with Publisher v2, I can't seem to get that to work. The instructions say to create the embedded frame by drawing a new frame inside of the parent, but every time I try that, It just selects text in the parent. Also, It doesn't look like you can flow the parent text around the embedded frame.

Mark

[Old Bruce]

Do these not help? I have turned on the Text > Highlight Fields option and these are in the text flow, no need for separate frames.

To From Jump Lines.afpub

[Mark Erbaugh]

Old Bruce:

The problem for me is that since those jump lines are embedded in the story, if you have to edit the story, the jump lines move around. I was hoping for a way to fix the jump line to the text frame and have the story text flow around them. 

[Old Bruce]

Then make a pair of Frame Texgt text frames for the "Continued on..." and one for the "From ..." text and link the frames, drag them to the appropriate places on the appropriate pages. No need to pin, no need for anchors.

[Mark Erbaugh]

Old Bruce:

 

That's what I ended up doing. I also grouped the story text frame and the jump line text frame so they move together.