SteveS Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 I hope someone can help me. I developed a Filemaker 4.0 Runtime database and installed it on a LAN network. The network stations have various types of printers attached. This causes printing problems with milti-page documents. The page breaks do not work properly with some of the workstations. Is there a script that I could use to address this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Duplicate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Knippel Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Basically you will need to setup various "Page Setup" scripts which are configured for each type of printer. Then you can conditionally call the proper script depending upon which printer it will print to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveS Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 Thank you for your response Kurt, I do not know why this task is difficult with FileMaker, when it is automatic in Microsoft Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Knippel Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 That is because Office is totally in control of the placement of objects on the page, whereas in Filemaker that control is left up to the developer. Filemaker only controls the display of records on the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodyhell Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 how can it be possible?? I had a similar problem, and it started to be just when we upgraded to win2000! there must be another way I think to solve this problem, duplicating all the scripts is a long work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DykstrL Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 You don't need different layouts for the different printers. Just set the print margins for any layouts that will be printed to .5 inches - I guarantee that the layouts will print on ANY printer except for maybe dot-matrix. You will lose some real estate on your layouts, but it sure beats duplicating the same layout many times with just very slight changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodyhell Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 thank you very much dykstrl for your answer! I thought something like that, but I don't understand why filemaker's programmers didn't solve this problem...!? Using windows98SE scritps were working in the same way for both printers! So if I set up all the layouts that will be printed between the page margins do you think everything will be fine?? It's gonna be a long work, but it still is a solution... thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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