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#52834 - 12/10/15 04:58 AM Overflowing Text Beneath a Line Repeat
AlexAylesbury Offline
OL Newbie

Registered: 12/10/15
Posts: 2
Good Morning

I've been encountering some issues working on a Design template. I've got a duplex job with a tear away strip at the bottom, the data for which is in .xml format.

There is a line repeat, which is working as expected, and if it would repeat below the tear away strip it instead overflows onto a new duplex page, just as expected.

My issue is that there are several lines of text below the line repeat, but I'm unsure how to get them to overflow onto a new page properly themselves. I've tried using a condition so that they only appear on the last page and then keeping them in position with snapping points, which works fine on page 1, but if the job overflows they instead snap to the same position on page 2 (as in, at overflow line), rather than snapping to wherever the line repeat on page 2 ends.

Is there any way to correct this?

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#52842 - 12/11/15 08:17 AM Re: Overflowing Text Beneath a Line Repeat [Re: AlexAylesbury]
Ken Darby Offline
OL Guru

Registered: 07/31/01
Posts: 134
Loc: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Put the several lines on an overlay for the front page. Assuming there is never more than two pages per record, these lines could be static on page 2.

Use the Condition property in Basic Attributes of the overlay page to control whether it prints or not. If the line repeat is not overflowing, system variable &Current.overflowing is false until the exit and overflow is met at which time it becomes true. It is important that the overlay be placed in the document structure after the line repeat has executed since this how the &current.overflowing changes from false to true.

Hope this helps.


Edited by Ken Darby (12/11/15 08:24 AM)

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