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127 Making automatic jump lines

127 Making automatic jump lines - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

127 Making automatic jump lines

Let's talk about how to make automatic jump lines, and there are surprisingly a number of people who don't know that InDesign can do that for you. A jump line is when you have a story, typically in a magazine, like this profile of Arnie Palmer, that continues, and then has to jump one or more pages. Like let's assume that this article jumps from here down to here and in fact if I turn on Show Text Threads, you can see it, actually the line goes all the way down here. This might be, right here it's four pages, could be four ads or it could be another article or, you know, off in the or continued to the end of the magazine. What you want to do is you want to tell the reader at the end of this story, continued on page, and then give them the page number so they can flip forward and find it here. And if they just happen to be browsing the story and they're on this page, and they're like, oh, where's this coming from? And so you'd want a continued from. So a continue to and a continued…

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