Printing

We are trying to design a printed report that has both a fixed header and footer (both size and location), and has a varying sized portal (single line to 100+ lines) that will force the footer to be carried on to additional pages. Our problem is we want to keep the footer always at the bottom below a perforated line regardless of how many lines deep the portal field line items are (currently the footer moves to the point right below the portal), and we do not want the header appear on additional pages of the report. How do we do this?

I want to print multiple mail labels for the same records. For example, I am doing a find that brings back 10 records of ten clients. I want to print two mail labels for each client on one sheet of label paper (not two). doers anyone know if this can be done?

I want to print multiple mail labels for the same records. For example, I am doing a find that brings back 10 records of ten clients. I want to print two mail labels for each client on one sheet of label paper (not two). doers anyone know if this can be done?

Can anyone give me advice as to Fax server software that is compatible with linking to FileMaker? Specifically, Does anyone have any experience with FAXmaker by GFI? We are running FileMaker Server 5.0 & 25 FileMaker 5.5 clients. We are in the process of setting up a fax server & are interested in automating broadcast faxes from within FileMaker databases. We have been doing this with WinFax from each workstation, using DDE to pass info from FileMaker to WinFax via WinBatch, which has been somewhat buggy. For our fax server software, we are looking at the "FaxMaker for Networks SMTP" program distributed by GFI software http://www.gfisoftware.com/pages/prodinfo.…

Is there any way to get around the 110 inch layout limit? Using more than one layout will not work I don't think. I have approx 550 records to print, and it must be done in one print run (Am using the digital copier to double side, fold and staple). Thanks.

Can print options be changed within scripts? Say a user hits a button to print report A in 4 copies... I know how to "choose" Report-A, but i don't where to "script" the number of copies or the report layout(portrait, landscape). Can i also control the paper tray selection?? Thanks --Dan

Trying to merge FM 5.0 found records with MsWord 2001 using OS 9.1. The merge works just once; when I go get another record Word quits (error 2). So I restart, then when reopening MsWord the message is "There is not enough memory or space on disk" to open that document BUT I have memory set to 70000K! Would wordmergepro (shareware) help if I could find it? (but they connection couldn't be found for www.wordmergepro.com) Thank you Hewmer

I am trying to find a way of changing from the paper tray to manual paper feed during a Filemaker script on a Macintosh. I want to print paper from the tray and labels from the manual feed. Do you have any fixes? Thanks in advance.

I need to print double-sided. In other programs this can be done by first printing all odd pages, turning the paper over and feeding it through again while printing all even pages (last->first). How can this be done in FileMaker?

I have a database that prints a federal form. It requires that we sub total (at the bottom of the page) the value of the monetary contribution records that are printed on that page. The way we have set up the form, it shows eight records per page but as we add records to the database, the order of these eight records shift and change. I know sub summary parts allow you to create a sub total as the sorted field changes value but this logic does not seem to be able to give a summary whenever the page breaks. Any ideas?

Hey kids. I have a problem with what should be a simple exercise in scripting. I have a script that performs a find and sort, then prompts you to view or print the document. The print setup is supposed to be for legal (8.5x14) size paper, but it keeps reverting to letter (8.5x11) for the view and the print options. When this happens, I change the print setup to legal, then replace the settings in all of my sub-scripts. The script works on my computer, and my assistant's for a while, but then reverts to the letter setting. It started out as one big, nasty script, which I fixed many times. Then I decided to start from scratch, and create a new set of modular scripts. S…

In an application that I'm working on, hundreds of student marks are gathered and displayed in a nice table layout. Average, medians, etc all work fine; however, I would like to take the data to a higher level and now display it as a multi-line graph. Can this be done in FMP, or will I need to port the data to another app? If so, what would the more experienced of you suggest? Thank you for any suggestion.

Dear All, I have installed new IBM All-In-Ones to some of the users in my company, and they have Windows 2000 professional installed on them. The problem that I'm having is that printouts from some of the FileMaker files are not complete, only part of the text on a layout is printed and others are not. I want to beleive that this is a Windows problem, but I have tried from other machines, which are not All-In-One, and which have Windows 2000, and they are printing correctly. I have also tried it from other All-In-One machines which have other operating systems, and they are printing correctly. The last thing I could think of is FileMaker; I'm wondering if FileMaker has p…

I'm trying to print a merged database and all I get are script steps. Any ideas? Rick Metheny

Ok, I can't be the first to run into this problem. I am using 5.5 Instant web publishing, would like to be able to print a report to a web client. Is there any easy way to generate a .pdf, or similar document from a FMP report and then send to a web user for printing?

This sounds like a driver/network/hardware problem: I’ve got a problem with the following system. A Filemaker solution calls up about 200 addresses. The user then selects a letter from a drop-down, which is then loaded into a global field in a Letter-Layout. A script then starts printing (print current found set): The layout is as follows: (A merge field containing) <Company Name1> <Company Name2> <Addressee> <” “ > (This is just a return for spacing) <Street>” “<House Number> <ZIP>” “ <Town> <” “ > (This is just a return for spacing) <Country> Ok, now comes a fiel…

Greetings Folks How can I set the printer to default on Print "Current Record"- the printer screen defaults on "Records being browsed", which I constantly hit by mistake & get print outs of a lot of stuff I no not want. Thanks in anticipation Sean O'Donoghue

We have created a database of social studies questions in filemaker that allows teachers to search through and create their own custom tests. The application was started in Filemaker 4.0 for the mac, converted to 5 and then made into a runtime application. One of the layouts in this testbank is "user guide" which has instructions on how to use the application. The instructions are a couple of pages long and have been copied and pasted into editable text fields from pagemaker. While the text shows up fine on screen, I only get two blank pages when trying to print it out. This seems to happen on both the mac and pc platforms. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks,…

I am trying to make a label layout for Avery address labels when I go into layout the predefined labels are grayed out, do I need to reinstall to get the predefined labels or do I need to down load them from some where? It seems I had the predefined labels before but not sure now. I also want to print the same name and address on a whole sheet of labels (30 labels) is there a certain way I have to do this. Thanks for your help Dennis

This is strange one I can't understand: If I use the "sliding left" for a date field, the value gets truncated (I have tried different date formats): it seems to cut on the 9 if the date shows as "01/10/09". If the slide is removed, the date displays ok. (and the field width is wide enough...) Any suggestion?

I've written a script for our database whereby which info from certain fields is collated and then mailed out through the Eudora program. The problem is that the message goes to a mail queue rather than being sent straight away - is this a Eudora problem or a Filemaker problem? Has anyone found a solution? Cheers Richard

Fonts do not kern the same from PC to MAC. I usually make the file work on a Mac first, then make another layout in the file for the PC version(same file). Then use a script to decide which layout to show or go to based on the status(platform) function.

I have figured out how to find the records that I want to merge. I do not want to do the merge from FM to Word. I want to do this just the opposite and retreive this data from within a Word doc. Word can't seem to read the FM data.Heeeeeeeeeelp!!!!

Hi, I've installed my fmdbase in a network pc/mac that has an NT pc-server with Filemaker Server on it. Merging with filemaker is working ok on my little network (I open the Word doc and activate merge) but seems to be causing problems on this network. Should I install the Merge documents on the server? Or should I install the Word documents locally? How do I refer to fmfiles managed by filemaker server?: I could open the document through filemaker with applescript but this is soooo slow and I very often get error messages! And above all how do I get my links right...pffff, this might all seem a bit confusing but I hope someone gets my question. Thankyou for readi…

What do I need for Mas Faxing with windows mahine? We need to mass FAX about 4000-8000 faxises per time. How do we do it with Windows 2000 and filemaker?

Ok...I'm very new to FileMaker but have been a Mac user since 84..so I know my way around troubleshooting printers and such...here is my problem.. I'm printing a record out of my very small FileMaker database (less than 50 records). The record has maybe 30 fields in it, most of which are actually empty. The layout is nothing fancy...very straight and away...this should rip out of the printer as fast as any one page word document...probably quicker... I've got my Mac connected wireless (Airport) to the network....to print the single record takes a good 5 minutes...it screams out of FM5 but chokes in getting the data from my desktop printer to the actual printer. Or…

I am using File Maker 5.5 and HP Laser Jet Printer,I want to print a big layout spaning 2 pages,I am using sliding up based on all above and reduce the size of encloscing part.But what ever I do it breaks the text and file majer fields near the page break line into 2.Half is printed on one page and the other half on the other.I have read through all the manuals and technical documents but have found no solution to this.i have tried using different fonts and sizes also but of no use.Is this a problem of File Maker or ir the Printer.My OS win 2000. Thanx

I am getting Blank Pages out put when my layout spans multiple pages and I am using sliding up based on all above and reduce the size of enclosing part.What am I doing wrong? Thanks

In FM 3.0, I'm only able to print one page of a 30-page report (in the General Report, Browse mode). I've tried to print the complete report, but it still just prints that first page.

Hi, In my report the printing cuts off at the bottom and it reprints the same data again in the next page.I am using a Sliding Up based on all above and reduce the size of enclosing part.Also I am setting it to print one below the other Allowing part to break across boundries,what am I doing wrong here? And I am Using HP Laser Jet Printer,its a network printer and I am using Win 2000 OS.Hello this is a major problem I am facing.Is this a bug in FileMaker??? Thanx [ September 10, 2001: Message edited by: Jacob ] [ September 13, 2001: Message edited by: Jacob ]

Greetings All, I'm running network of FMP 3.0v6 clients on Windows NT and 2000 -- no Macs. The files are hosted on an FMP 3.x Server. All of the software & hardware is latest / greatest except for FileMaker. The problem that I am having happens when a client runs a script that contains a print setup step, and the printer that was originally used is no longer available. The script seems to be looking for the old printer and when it can't find the printer it crashes the client. I can fix this by going to each client workstation, choosing an available printer, editing the script and then choosing to replace the print setup. This works fine but it is a lot of work …

Create an unstored calculation field "PageNo" with this formula Status(CurrentPageNumber)+gPageOffset Then use a <<PageNo>> merge field instead of the normal ## page marker. Before printing the second layout, set the global field gPageOffset to the number of pages printed with the previous layout.

Also be aware than FM will only print the lines in a given repetition that are displayed on the layout - if a given rep has 10 lines of data, but only the 1st line is displayed, that is what will be printed.

When I print filemaker reports to my Epson Stylus Photo 700 I get system error 11, which causes system to need to be restarted. I have downloaded and installed the latest Epson drivers -- no effect. I can print from Word or Excel fine to the Epson printer, and I can print from Filemaker fine to an HP deskwriter printer. I have Filemaker 3.0 and Mac OS 7.6. Any suggestions appreciated

I have to update a complex series of related databases. I want to print or, better yet, save to a Word file, all the script steps in 4 databases. I must be insane, because I keep trying the same thing and expecting different results. Oh well, we computer wonks are insane, aren't we? I'll speak for myself. After spooling 21 pages, I repeatedly get the error message that FileMaker can't complete the printing (error -192). I need to see these script steps to remind myself what I worked so hard on last year. BTW, I was able to save one script to a postscript file, but not the second, and definitely not all at once. And when I tried to open the postscript file, the compu…

I have several (10) databases varying in size from 100K to 5MB. I am able to access data from each of my databases except the largest one. I am assuming one of the following to be the problem. 1) Corrupt database and/or record. 2) Is there a limit to the ODBC capabilities with filemaker?? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Frustrated

I am documenting a database with a large number of scripts, and want them to print out several scripts to a page, rather than one script to a page. Has anyone been able to do this? P.S. I have tried created an Adobe PDF file from Filemaker 5.5 using Adobe PDF Writer on a Mac G4 (setting the Chooser to Adobe PDF Writer and then printing), with the thought that I could then do OCR on the PDF file so that I can edit it and removed the page breaks. But, when trying the capture tool in Adobe Acrobat 4.0, I get the message "This page has graphics other than images or text on it. It cannot be captured."

I have created a solution to print to an odd printer. The print driver uses a custom page size of 12 X 32. When the layout is put in preview mode it shows a 8 1/2 x 11 vertical page instead of the 12 x 32 horizontal. On FM site they say custom page sizes will not work. Is there any way around this? Can I load a print driver for a larger formatt printer and let it clip the page? The printer did not respond when I tried this. Any ideas would help. Wayne

I'm using Filemaker Pro V5 on a Macintosh. I have a simple adress list with two lines per record. If I have all records or even a few records available in the Browse mode, when I go to the preview mode, only the FIRST record will appear. When I print, each record prints on a separate page. How can I get filemaker to continue to add as many records as will fit on a page. I don't have problems with my old version of filemaker Version 2

Can I set the page size to 11x17 rather than the default 8.5x11? I have looked at the file options and cannot figure this one out. Thanks!

Hi, I am trying to print a layout that I previosly printed without problems. It uses images from a related database. The message that shows is: "Sorry, FileMaker is unable to continue printing. Error -50". I would really, really appreciate if someone could help me as soon as possible.Thanks a lot in advance.

Any idea on how to do this. If I just click on my print button, it prints out all the records (not a very good idea!). How do I script it (probably) to get it to print the record your on only? There is probably a really easy solution to this. Thanxs

Is there any way of specifying to print from Page No no1 to Page No no2. where no1 and no2 comes from the database. Thank You [ August 20, 2001: Message edited by: Jacob ]

We use FMP 3.0v6, we have 2 HP 4500 laserjets. We are starting to migrate our computers from Macs to PCs. Many of our reports are too big to fit on a single sheet of paper without reducing the size. The scaling features works fine on the Macs & Win98 machines, but I can't get it to work on the Win2000 Pcs. I have tried using the HP PCL and Postscript drivers as well as the Adobe PS 4.2?? drivers. None of these options work, changing the percentage or using HP's zoomsmart don't even change the scale in preview mode. Using Adobe's PDFWriter as the printer I can rescale the reports in Preview Mode and Print them correctly to PDF, then print the PDF. This two step pr…

my problem is that printing indented text fields on WIN doesnt show the indents but on MAC it is like expected WYSIWYG. Any idea : Using FM5.5

I have been unable to figure this out, so I am appealing for help to the great FMers here. I have a database with 10 records in it. Nine of the fields are small standardized lengths (10-30 characters) but the tenth varies widely (300-30,000 characters, for example). I have created a layout with the smaller fields at the top and the generally-large field at the end. The problem: if necessary, I would like the final field to break at the end of a column and finish at the top of the next column. Equally nice would be the ability to let a record itself to break so that a field(s) that wouldn't fully fit in one column to finish in the next column. So far I have been una…

Hi, I have tried to create a "print" script that takes my colleagues from a "contacts" file to the preview of a letter layout. I have created this layout in the "contacts" file. The problem is, when I get from browse mode to preview mode, Filemaker displays the first record in the "contacts" file. If I choose "print", the active record is printed. This is very confusing. I would like to know if it is possible to create a script to omit all records but the active one, when the user is taken from layout #1 to the letter layout, in order to see the record that i want to have printed in preview mode. I know I could omit all records by using another file and copy and pa…

Has anyone vertured into how to turn a FM form into a PDF form. I want to create a script that exports a FM form with data into a PDF form with data. It seems to me the easiest way would be to create a template PDF form the same as my FM form and have a applescript grab the data from FM and place it in the PDF form. Does anyone have any other way of doing this? Dave

Hi, Checkout AfFiler from Afeina software http://www.afeina.com . It does just what you are describing. Good Luck, Martin

I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now, and I am now confused and not sure what to do.... I want to save my output to a PDF instead of to the printer. I can do it manually when I get the Print dialog box and check off all the settings (Destination:To File, Save as:Acrobat PDF, etc.) I'm thinking that I would have to use Applescript to hard code these settings....the questions is how do I do that. I've been looking for a sample in Applescript, and have been unsuccessful thus far. Any help would greatly be appreciated.....Kim

I have developed a building/home inspection report form in FMPro 5. When outputting to a printer, various scripts jump from layout to layout and print the final report. The average report is 15-18 pages. The problem is printing to Adobe/PDF format; w/ this method, you end up w/ 15 or more different documents. I want to put all the necessary info on one layout so that the document prints as a single document. The problem is that FMPro layouts are limited to approx. 10-12 pages depending on headers, footers, etc. I am well aware of sliding objects for removing wasted space, but run into problems w/ fields breaking across pages, etc. I need a longer layout, but it does…

I have a report layout that in composed of a header, subsummary, grand summary and footer. I've omitted the body of the record. It's designed to tabulate results for various categories and only display the totals. When I switch to preview mode (which is the only place I can view the summary totals), something strange happens. The first line (or couple of lines, depending on the file) displays properly, but the following ones are indented about an inch. If I switch back to browse mode and return to preview, it usually fixes the problem. To clarify, the preview looks a bit like this [The periods are represent blank spaces]: Subsummary data for the first group. .....Su…

I want to help me in the following thing: I Am printing a catalog in preview mode, in the status bar it does put me the buttons CANCEL and CONTINUED and if I press the CANCEL button automatically does it put on in BROWSE mode staying in the same layout and I want that it can send himself to another layout, like I can make this?.

Win98 FMP4.0v3 I have written several solutions using FMP 4.0v3 developer and they have worked perfectly for years both on networks and single user. Recently all the new printer and drivers cause FM4.0v3 to commit an illegal operation and is shut down (it is usually corrupted and has to be restored). I can substitute an existing printer driver in the Win98 database (example: HP4000 series laser printers using the HP5 driver - this will print perfectly). the problme is that I have hundreds of single users and everytime they buy a new printer, it becomes a problem. Does anyone out there know what is happening and is there a possible fix. Thanks, Ron

I apologize for the length of this post. I have read three FileMaker books, and can't find the solution to the following problem. I am using FMPro 5.0. I created an invoice layout for professional services containing several parts. A title header has client information. The body part contains the records of the services performed for the client (date/employee/services/hours). There are two different trailing subsummary parts, each sorted by client code: (1) total hours--a summary field; and (2) expenses--this subsummary part contains a portal in which all the expenses from a related file are displayed. I want a report to print out as designed with all the services in…

I have layouts that look perfect and print perfect on my Mac but when I use the same layout on my Windows 98 machine the fields are not lined up and if doesnt print correctly. Can this be fixed? This is a word document that I copied the text and pasted it. Could the cells in the word document be the cause of this problem?

Hi, Quick question to anyone who can help me. While trying to print my invoice the portal wich is split in two pages move dramatically every time i print. in preview mode, it moves before and after printing. the fields move diffently when sending it to winfax for faxing. is this common and is their possible fix for this?

Hello everyone, This is just a quick note to say that we at Comm-Unity Networking Systems have released a new version of SMTPit, the widely popular email plug-in. This version has many new enhancements including Japanese Character support, Server Authentication support, OS X support, and many, many other enhancements. I posted the complete Press Release to the Advertisements section of the Classifieds Category here on FM Forums, so go take a look if you are interested. Thanks, Jake

I'm setting up a layout for printing out cheques (that's Canadian for checks ). It seems to me that at one time you had to use pre-numbered forms because the OCR text at the bottom (Bank ID, Acct. No. and cheque No.) was printed with magnetic ink so that the bank's scanner could pick up the info. Is that obsolete technology now? For better control, we want to have Filemaker assign the cheque number, rather than force the user to enter a number into the database from the cheque form. Just wondering what others have done in this regard.

Help! All of the new fields I'm adding to my layout are getting printed with a border on the bottom and right hand side. If the field is empty the border doesn't print. All border format boxes ARE deselected. I'm not sure if it's a bug as I created the database a long time ago (FM2 initially!) and am only recently making modifications with FM5.0. Any ideas? [ July 19, 2001: Message edited by: LTQ ]

Hi all, I have one DB with 107 fields, and I want to have a layout to show all fields. I can create the layout without any problem but when I view in table view I can see only 66 fields, I do not know why, I know I am doing some stupid mistake but please guide me so that I can see all fields. Thanks in Advance. Aditya

Hi again... I try to make a report from 2 related DB (PayA & PayB) in my master DB (Pay), but I can't, when I put the fields in the master layout then, when I make a search in a script with the "//" Today's date found another records with other Date and the Today's date. My report is designed with the next: Header Sub Summary PayA: ate Sub Summary PayB: ate Body Name PayA: ayment PayB: ayment Sub summary PayA::Total (Summary field) Sub summary PayB::Total (Summary field) Footer In the script the Sort is: Name>PayA::date>PayB::date It's correct, thnaks for your help Jorge Soriano

This one really isn't a FileMaker issue, but it could come up in FileMaker, so I'm hoping that someone here might know the answer. How can I email raw HTML in Outlook express and have the recipient see the formatted page rather than the HTML? I know this is possible, because I receive bulk emails that do this. I've taken a look at the source for these emails, and they have lines like this: code: Content-Type: multi-part/alternative; boundary="----000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" Then a bit later in the source code of the email is a line like this: code: ------00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000…

Hello Everyone I have two questions. first, how can I set up in any of my dbases so that all correspondence ( printed matter or emails & faxes from within FM5) can be archieved. As it stands I can do all of the above but no record of what has been done is available.?? Second regarding page setups. is the preference between portrait or landscape carried over from layout to layout within a file or can each layout maintain it's own set of printing preferences?? And is there any further issues when going from PC's to Mac's.?? Thank you in advance Arthur

Is there a way to auto send an email from FMP db after clicking "Submit" button from web page? I've got everything working with CDML but can't figure out a way to auto send the email to someone after record has been submitted. I can do it manually so it works ok, just need to automate! all help appreciated... nati [ June 26, 2001: Message edited by: nati ]

I have a database set up which via a calculation field allows me to e mail data. I want to know if you can make the result of the calculation bold or does it have to stay in plain text.

quote: Originally posted by Mike McD: Has anyone created a page for printing out specific fields of selected records within a found set? It would be similar to an order page but with a convenient button to send only current records (one at a time) to a list which could be renewed at any time. Intended for research and compilation of video clips. Any help would be appreciated, as I can only figure out how to enter those records separately, not save or send them to another layout. What you could do is to have a screen in list view, and then have a button on each record. The script attached to the button could paste the record's PrimaryID (which you better hav…

I have a database with 'item', 'run name', 'tags run' and 'time'. I also have a calculation for tags per hour(tags run/time)unstored. I have 2 summary fields for total 'tags run SUM' and 'time SUM' these summary fields show the correct data. But if I create a field called 'labels per hour SUM' and make it a calculation of (tags run SUM / time SUM) the result is for the entire found set, what I want is for the individual items to have their own totals, what do I do? I have the database sorted by 'item', then 'run name' and I have the report parted out as header,sub sum item,sub sum run name,sub sum item,footer. The 'labels per hour SUM' is in the last sub sum item. E…

Hi all, I have a big database and I want to prepare various reports from the same based on some conditions (say I have a field where I have values 1,2,3,4,5 so I want 5 reports one with 1 only and second with 2 only and so on) I am just curious to know how is that possible, as I am new to FM so I really could not mke out how it can be done. Thanks in advance

I am new to FM and am trying to create a custom form that will print ONLY the fields that have information in them and ignore any blank fields. Is this possible?

Can anyone tell me why the first calc below works but the 2nd fails to put the e-mail address into outlook? They're from diff dbs so field names are diff, but the scripts to call them are same (Open URL, No dialog, name of calc field)? "mailto:" & PI_Email & "?subject=" & "Cycle#" & CYCLE# & "-" &Type_of_Grant & "-" & ID# "mailto:" & E_mail & "?subject=" & "Global Strategies Invitation"& "?body=" &"Dear " &First Name & Last Name thanks for any suggestions

Hello A quick Q: I have a "notes" field in one of my dbases. and when I go to print the layout which it is a part of. Only what is visible will print. How do I get FM5 to print all the contents of this field by continuing on another page automatically etc. I know in Quarkxpress all I need to do is set a link to a text box etc. but I have not found anything like this function in filemaker? Thank you in advance p.s. I did read the last topic in this list but the answer was not there.

I have a form that I want to only print the current record. On Mac, LaserWriter 8 (8.7.1) I have checked Print: "Current Record" in the print dialog, hit "save settings" and everything prints correctly, but the next time I open up the database and print this same form my print settings default to printing all of my records and my page orientation gets changed. Has anyone gotta a fix or solution? Thanks, Any help is appreciated...

I want to create 2 different forms ..... one that prints using the portrait orientation, the other that prints using landscape orientation. Is there a way to make FileMaker Pro 5 remember the orientation of each form without changing the orientation on the Print Setup dialog box each time I print one of these forms? Is scripting the only way?

Hi All, I need to print out alternate pages in order to print both sides of an address book. Can anyone help? Cheers Simon B

heloo, is there any one know how can we export a record and then save it as a jpeg file please help thank u

When entering text in the header, it does not align with a grid that I create in the body. Is there an easy way to create an attendance grid with headers for each day of the week?

I was trying to make changes to the built-in web page in FM (change the background color and add an image). According to the Dreamweaver, the generator of the webpage is located in the folder called FMRes. However, I could't find it anywhere in my system. I was wondering, where it might be, and is it possible to make alterations to the built-in page. Thanks a lot, Luka

Hmmm----don't get it I have a G4 with lotsa RAM allocated to FM -----to a HP Laserjet5000 series --with lotsa RAM running FM server over a TCP/IP network----most everything works great---I have a large color .jpeg (90 Mgs) that I have NO problem printing to any of my printers using Photoshop 6 or InDesign or other programs----- Problem: When I import this large .jpeg file to FM for adjusting to specific layout it works fine ---UNTIL I try and print ---and then WOW ----super hard crashes---to printer and G4--- sometimes crashes---sometimes prints out blank paper--sometimes prints out a sheet with large letters that say "JPEG ERROR -53" I have allocated much RAM to al…

The descenders are being cut off when previewing and printing. It only happens to some fonts. When using the same fonts in other software I don't have this problem. So the problem must be with FMP and not the font. Does anyone have an answer? Thanks Mike

HELP! Printing to postscript driver (laserwriter 8.7). Adds extra spaces to spacing in print out (left justified type). (Filemaker Pro 5; MAC sys 9.01). Prints to inkjet correctly.

Hi Everyone, The manual, searches, FM support, phoning etc - all of no help! When i use "send mail" to send a bulk mailer, not all of the contacts come out into Eudora ... tried zapping the PRAM, cloning the DB, re-making it, making a new DB with only a few fields and importing those ... nothing works, wail, sob, "kill myself" Has anyone had any problems of this sort and figured it out ... or any ideas ... perhaps if i was using another email app, but the guys on the end of the phone say Eudora has no issues with FM. Also, are there any plug-ins which i could get to help? ... any ideas? (greatfully recieved) Thanks, Slater null [ June 04, 2001: Message e…

I have a service request form that has two fields (service request number, and service description) and I need to have space for the service person to write what has been completed. I need a line accross the page. So I made a couple copies of the description field (which may have one to six lines of text) and set the text color to white, set the bottom border line to black and set the sliding based on all above. Worked like a dream on my printer. When I installed on site, the laser printer would print the white characters over the black text. I sent the white fields to back, brought black text field to front and then made the white text fields transparent. Nothing h…

I work for a small school district and I have developed a solution using FM5 and Lasso which allows elementary teachers to input student report cards on the web. The output (paper) is strictly from FM. This solution is in testing right now, and will go into production next fall. Printing is my big concern. I know I will do a batch print at report card time, but what about one-off printing? (I have no plans to allow anyone access to the FM databases) My best idea is to run a second print job to write to PDF files rather than a printer, and then distribute the appropriate records to each school for storage and retreival, as necessary. The question is, will it be pos…

Is there any way to add to the list of predefined labels? I am using a new Avery label (Avery 6876) which is not supported in the list. Having set up the label form once, I would like to have that label available whenever I need it.

I have a database set up which via a calculation field allows me to e mail data. I want to know if you can make the result of the calculation bold or does it have to stay in plain text.

Hi, I have selected the records that I need to print. For each record selected I want to be able to select a layout (from a choice of about 20 layouts) and the number of times this record need to be printed (default being 1). Finally I want to minimise the number of sheets needed to print: most likely by grouping all the records that need to be printed using the same layout (certain layouts fit 2 to a page, others 4, others 6, 8 and 12). Am I dreaming? or can this be done? Thanks for any input you might have.

may know how to have a field which have the join function?:

I'm trying to find out if you can use a single-user FileMaker Pro file (4.x) as a data source from Microsoft Word 97 (Windows 95). I know in Microsoft Word 98 and Word 2001 (both for the MacOS), you can set up under your Tools Menu > Data Source Manager (Mail Merge Manager) a FMP file as a data source. So my question is, can you do the same thing from within Word 97 for Windows? What about Word 2000? I know I could always export a tab-delimited file, but my client wants to access the data in her FMP file directly from within Word 97 for some very complex forms she already has templates of. To transfer all the data from those forms onto a FMP layout would be a nightmar…

I have a customer that needs to print 1,400-1,500 labels at a time. They used to use ImageWriters. Well they are dying. Does anyone know of a good dot matrix printer that will support LocalTalk. I have tried the Epson LQ-870 and we are having problems with the labels ligning up. It will print good till it reaches the typical preforation on a 9 x 11 paper. I would really appreciate any help.

I've got a report that has a title header that includes a description of what the report is covering. Below this description field are the column headings for the report. Since the description field could be long or short, I made enough room for it to be rather long and then defined the field and the column headings to slide up based on All above, and also reduce the size of the enclosing part. When I view the report in preview mode, the description field does seem to slide up, because the column headings that are below it appear just below the text in it. However, there is a lot of space between the column headings and the rows of data in the body, which leads me to …

Hello, Im trying to print a found set of records in a list. There is a header then a body that I've made the height of one row with a record. In list view I only see one row at a time; same with form view. In table view you see all the rows of the found set and all print. I can't get them to print in list view even when I make sure Records being browsed is checked in print setup. Thanks, Bill

Hi folks, I'm trying to print 3 fields in a trailing sub summary. Sub Total Shipping Grand total Only the sub total shows up in a preview or on a printed page. Help!

Hey, I am working on a memebership database, and we have like 20 letters that follow similar formats but have to say different things. My idea was to put all the letters in a related database and link to them via a pull down value list that is compiled based on the titles of the letters. So I pick a letter title in the main database, and it merges in the letter, which works great, until I put a merge field the body of the letter. I know why it isn't working (filemaker only processes the original merge field and not the merge field that is in the letter) I was wondering if anyone had an idea as to a way around this? Nathaniel

ok.. i know this question has been asked before.. but i need to ask it again?? is the only way to make sure you get all the text in a large text field to print to make the field large enough to handle all teh text and then you sliding to make it smaller... i think filemaker needs a sliding option that will make a text field grow to handle all the text that is in it... i mean i may never know how much info some might put in this field.. so what do i do.. i make the field 4 pages long, but i just know someone will come along and put 5 pages of info into that field.. i know it will happen?? why?? because thats my luck.. so please tell me there is another way around…

I have an insurance claims business. I am currently passing information using email and attached files. Daily I will create an export file for each field agent who has new claims to be processed. The export file is prenamed. I then launch a second set of scripts to send the email to the adjuster. This means that I have had to specify the prenamed file in the script. I used the status error code to skip those adjusters who had no new files. The system works fine except that I have to create new filenames and add to the master script to be able to add new adjusters. I will likewise have to delete adjusters that have left my business. Is there a way to make this pro…

I recently inherited a database from a third or fourth party. It is a 700 strong database of names and addresses. It has fields for name, work address, work address 2, work city, work state, work zip, mailing address, mailing address city, mailing address state, mailing address zip. While everyone on the list has one address, not everyone has the two, and in some cases the mailing address and work address is the same. I need to send a letter to all the names. Is there any way to set up an if/then statement, so that if one address exists (i.e work), the letter will be addressed to that one, and ignore the other, and vice versa? If no work address exists it will select the …

Do you know of any dot matrix printers that can work on an imac?

I have updated my picture with 200% view see above. To Bob Weaver: 1) is off 2) problem is the same with truetype or postscript fonts , the example uses Arial To Byteworks: Under windows I used an Apple LaserWriter 12/600 Under Apple I used an Apple LaserWriter 16/600 But it is not a printer problem, it is a Filemaker problem!! If you reduce or enlarge your screen in Filemaker you will see thjat the endings of the sentences are different. I also used different fonts both truetype and postscript type 1(under windows just truetype) and they all behave strange. The problem is the 100% is not wysiwyg and have to align my last sentence with a price in a field a…

Silly question, I know. But everytime I try to use a non-default format file it sez: The format file "issueadd.html" could not be found. Thanks for helping this nubie in advance...