As far as I know, there's no in-built method of doing a repeat on a block of text, as opposed to a single line.

For instance, I have text in a file that makes up 8x2 label sheets. I extract a single block of text for the first label, and then use a repeat to extract and display the other 15 labels.

In order to move the Planet Press 'cursor' to the correct line of data, I use these 2 lines in PressTalk :-

Presstalk Before:
set(&current.line, &current.line + 1)

Presstalk After:
set(&current.line, &current.line + 8)


What I'd like is a new field on Repeat called 'Step' which would effectively do the same as the code above. If I set the field to 8, it will jump 8 lines of data each time the repeat loops.

Cheers, Rob.

Personally, I would do the following:

Set the data file's Lines Per Page to 8. So each data page contains just the right amount of data for a single label.

Then, create a virtual page with a custom size that matches that of the labels to produce. Add a Data Selection object on that page with all the data from the Data Page.

Finally, back on the main - physical - page, add a nUp Printing object, set to use the Virtual Page created above. Set the number of horizontal/vertical copies to 2X8 and make sure the option to Change Data Page With Each Repeat is ticked.

This makes maintenance and formatting much easier, in my mind.

Thanks Philippe, looks good to me. I think the 'Step' approach would be more elegant, but happy to go with this solution.

Cheers, Rob.