Sliding & Printing

[laker_42]

We have a letter that we are trying to print out. At the bottom of the letter we need to print a signature, name and title. We have it setup so the body of the letter is a lookup field and we have sized the field so it will be more than big enough to accomodate any letter we print. We have the signature, name and title set to slide up to take up the extra space of the letter text field. What is happening is that FMP is shrinking the letter text field too small. It is cutting off part of the letter. It is sliding the signature, name and title part of the way but not up to where it should be. We have found a workaround for the letter text field being cutoff. If we enter a hard return at the end of the letter, it will not make the field too small. We would like to find out what is causing this and not have to use the workaround. Does anyone have an idea what is going on? We have been frustrated on several occasions with getting the sliding option to work correctly. It seems to work in some instances but not in others. Does anyone have any tips for using this option? Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

[BobWeaver]

Generally, sliding and printing behave very well with FM5.0 or later running on Mac OS 8.6 or OS 9.x. If you have an older version of Filemaker or are running on Windows or Mac OSX there have been a lot of complaints of strange printing behavior.

It may help if you try a different font.

[laker_42]

We are using FMP5.5v2 on a Win2000 machine. I will try a different font. I have always had strange printing behavior running it on Windows. You would think they would address this problem.

Thanks for the suggestion!

John