Missing graphics and colours on most records

[Steve Rogers]

We are creating a game which requires stacks of pick-up cards (like, for example, the Chance cards in "Monopoly").

Each card has a background colour allocated to a Container field, and 4x logo Containers in the 4 corners. These are looked up from five related files. Each card also has a main text field, and a text title which is repeated upside-down at the bottom.

Preview Mode shows perfect results, but when printing or saving to PDF the first card (or, on some pages, the first three or so) of each page is the only one printed in full. The others print in greyscale, and with only the bottom-corner logos and the upside-down title showing - no main text, no upper corner logos, no top title.

I am sure that the layout is OK because I can print it in two passes by splitting it into two layouts. The one with the upside-down text is the slower to render.

I suspect that FileMaker is using some kind of fixed-size memory cache in its print rendering routine, which our project is overloading. Seeing as my 1GHz iMac has 768MB RAM this is frustrating to say the least.

[-Queue-]

It may help to increase the cache size in your Edit->Preferences->Application Memory tab.

On second thought, you may not have this option available on Mac. But, possibly you could allocate extra memory to FileMaker via the OS?

[Vaughan]

What OS are you using? Version of FMP? Version of Acrobat? Etc.

[Steve Rogers]

Increasing the cache size works, thank you for the idea!

Hardware & software details: iMac (Flat Panel) 1GHz, 768MB RAM, OS X 10.2.8, FileMaker Pro 6.0v1, Acrobat Reader 5.0.5