print out <> preview in OSX

[Gondwana]

Hi

I have a report with sub-summary that perfectly previews on screen but as soon as it sent to any printer, pdf file or even fax seem to be output as in browse view. Have you ever seen that???

I mean that the first line printed is the first line of the body (only one line = first record), then the footer. So there is no header, no sub-summary before and after the body.

[Mike D.]

Make sure that in the print dialog, you are printing "Records being browsed" and not "Current Record". Print preview will show the report, but if your print dialog is Current record, only the first record will print.

HTH, Mike

[BobWeaver]

Also make sure that you are not changing the sort order between the time you do the preview, and when you print.

[Gondwana]

Thanks Mike... this was indeed the problem.

I did not think at all about this because I suppose that the default should be "all records being browsed" when printing a list view, and "current record only" when printing a form.

Now is that setting stored together with the page set-up in FMP or do I have to create a subset with that option and use AppleScript through FMP to be sure that my scripts will produce the same "expected" results every time?

[Mike D.]

The setting is now stored in the page set-up. A suggestion that I picked up in this forum is to create various page setup scripts like Portrait-Records browsed, Landscape-Records browsed, etc. Then call the scripts as needed.