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Wayne, I am only now getting back to this forum to check on any updates. I appreciate your detailed feedback and may attempt your approach some time soon. In the end, I ended up not using match lines at all. Rather, I had an inset locator map that served the same purpose. The match line issue was something that I wanted to resolve primarily because it had me stumped. I must admit, it still has me a bit confounded. It was not essential for the client. But that doesn't mean that I don't want to figure it out. Again, I will attempt to tackle it with your method. No need to send a Python script - if the method works, I will likely try to put one together myself. It would be good practice for me! Thanks again, Wayne. Jim
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Danielle, Thank you kindly. No need to send me samples, though. I have (generally) used the same methods that you have employed. Rather than match lines, I had an inset which followed the route of the large scale map, with each page having true north in the same direction (i.e. "up"). But recently I was provided a sample that almost assuredly used a data driven pages strip map index, and opted to use the 'Angle' attribute so that the general orientation of the route was shown (west-to-east). In this instance (which my three attachments demonstrate above), the north arrow rotates, and match lines are shown. It is the placement of these match lines - and how they work - that has me curious. At this point, I will likely revert to what has worked in the past, and simply not use match lines. At least, I will not use match lines as they are shown in my sample. Still, I would love to have this solved, as it seems that it should not be that complicated. Thank you again for your input. Jim
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Just for clarity, I have attached three pages from the sample PDF. These images were clipped to the border of the data frame (no need to show the marginalia). They go in order: Page_1, Page_2, Page_3. Note how the north arrow changes as the page re-orients itself. But the match lines never move, and always remain vertical. And, most importantly, they serve as real match lines, crossing the alignment in the same location on each page. Note also that Page_3 (which is actually the last page in the entire map series) also has a match line on the eastern edge - even though there is no succeeding page. This makes me believe that these lines were created in layout view and 'faked' in (the author leaving both match lines visible, even though this is the last page).
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Robert and Danielle, I follow what you're saying, Danielle, but I am mapping a very linear route (pipelines). And the end-user will be using the maps in the field, and he finds the match lines particularly helpful. And Robert, this is what I have done for other projects. That is, I inserted the index rectangles manually and copy-and-pasted them down the line. I never really had cause to use match lines, however, and so it didn't matter how the alignment came into each page from the north, east, west, etc. However, I need to re-orient the alignment in a (generally) west-to-east direction for each page, using a north arrow which rotates dynamically with each page. That said, I still need the match lines to appear on each page and at the same distance from the edge of the data frame border each time - and still be serving as true match lines, crossing the alignment in the same location. I have a PDF sample that shows this being done (over 32 pages), but I have not yet been able to figure out how to implement the match line portion. From the sample, it is evident that the author created the lines in layout view - but somehow, the lines work for every page. Jim
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How have you implemented match lines? Do they appear at the same location on each page?
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