Problems with font size and printing

[lester]

Hi,

I finally loaded all 11,000+ listings into my database successfully.

I am now facing an aggravating problem. I assumed that by using the default font style & size, I would be able to print out everything in the window of my database. I stretched out the fields to fill the window nicely so there wouldn't be a space left over on the right side.

But when I print out any of my listings, they are in huge # 12 font size and only half the fields will show up on the printout.

Is there any way to change the font size for the entire database? For any changes, I have not been able to figure out how to make more than one cell on one line get highlited for editing purposes.

I can't change my listings one by one for all 11,000 of them. How can I change them all to #10 font size instead of the huge #12?

I like the way it looks on screen with #12, but it won't all fit on the printouts and looks huge.

I can't edit the font size unless I have something highlited, but I am only able to highlite one field on one line at a time. Why can't you highlite multiple lines for editing like you can in a word processor or in spreadsheets? Or is there a way that I just haven't figured out yet?

I'd like to leave the font as #12 to view on screen, but as #10 for printing.

Can anybody help me please? I would really appreciate it. I hope that the only way to solve this isn't by creating another script, seems like this situation should be possible to fix without running a script. Also, why would #12 font be default if it is so darn big and causes these problems with printing?

Thanks a bunch.

[SteveB]

Font size, color, bold, underline, etc. are attributes of a field on a given layout...the information is not stored with the field. You can have a layout that is used for viewing your data and another layout that you use for printing, where you change the font to be anything you like.

[harryk]

I always use different lay-outs for viewing them on screen and printing. Screen lay-outs with me have a background color to avoid the blinding white, and printing lay-outs are prefered to have a white background. You can copy your screen lay-out(s) and adjust them for printing purposes. Experiment with different fonts. My favourite is helvetica 10, as 12 is often too big.

Harry

[lester]

Hi,

Thanks for responding. I am trying to get my database just right so I can run developer to turn it into a stand-alone run-time program.

I figured out how to use the layout>format>sliding/printing> to fit everything into the printout. #10 font in Arial is still pretty good size on a printout, but now it is very small on screen and there is a huge white area on the right side of everything.

I noticed that if I zoom in 1 time, most of that white field disappears and the screen size is great (almost too big). But, there is still an inch or 2 of that blank white area on the right. But, when I close out the program, it doesn't remember to open back up zoomed 1 time. I guess I'll need a script for that huh?

I need this database all layed out good before I run developer to make CD's.

Here are a few questions:

How do I get rid of that huge white area on the right side now that I have reduced the fields to fit on the printed page (preview)?

How do I create a script for the database to open zoomed 1 x?

How do I get rid of the smaller white area that is there even after I zoom 1x?

When I burn this database onto CD's for other people, I want the viewing screen to be full and decent size, but I still want the fields to all fit on a printed page.

I don't want my customers to have to switch back and forth between layouts and zooming etc. I would really like to have this all set first. That huge white area looks really bad after I shrank the font size and slid everything to where the fields would fit on a printout.

Thanks

[keshalyi]

Hey,

Now, I might not be right here, so if anyone otu there can confirm this, great.

But, as I recall, if you pull a field into a calculation, it loses all formatting, and resorts to the default font/size/etc. So if you just set up, for output, calculation fields that just picked up the values of the originals, would that not give you text, with no formatting, and bring it down to your default format?

[Vaughan]

You miss the point: the data is formatted by the fields on each layout. Different layouts can display (format) the text in different ways.

Don't use the zoom feature, it's not reliable between platforms. Create separate layouts for each purpose.

[mf]

How would one deal with "H20" (2 being subscripted)? If I refer to the field directly (in another file) , I get the format right. But if I put it in a calculation, the format is gone...

[Anatoli]

IMHO - try making that calculation as text and then you can apply the formatting.