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Many thanks Bob, I'm a beginner with FM and this helps me to understand if there is a simple solution or if I have to think to something else (a different organization of layouts? a button available to the user to open the image on demand?).

I've read the very useful suggestions of Bob (Single record Multi-page Printing), but... how to manage the case when all the fields of the layout are sliding and you have a Container field with an image in it? Is it possible to insert a page break just in front of that single Container field? or to let FM understand that, when there is no space for the image in the current page, it should jump to the next page?

Hi, I'm using a Container field for images. I'm using Sliding Options on it. The field slides correctly in Preview mode, but when it's empty it doesn't disappear as I expected (the text fields do it, when they are empty: see also my post "border of empty text fields"). I would like the image field not to take space, when I have no image. Can you help me?

Thanks Ugo, but the rectangle won't shrink to adapt to the text length, as the border does. Unfortunately I've text lengths that range from 1 line to more than 1 page...

I did it, but when the field is empty the field & border disappear. I would like instead to see the border and nothing inside.

Hi, I'm working with FM Pro 5.5. I've designed a Text field with a thin black border around it. In Preview mode I would like to see the border also when the field is empty, and this indeed happens if I don't use the Sliding Option on the field. On the other hand I need the field to slide up, so I have used the Sliding Options on it. But in this case the border disappears when the field is empty! I've found a trick to solve the problem but I'm not satisfied about it because I need to add a calculated DisplayTextField to my DB just for printing: If ( IsEmpty(TextField), " ", TextField) In this way the DisplayTextField is just a "space" when the TextField is empty and I can always see my black border. Is there a solution preventing me from creating all these "display" text fields? (I don't like it, because I have many other text fields that I should treat in the same manner...) Bye,