transit Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Hi all I have a database with both a title header and a header part when i have a record that requires a two page or more printout things work fine,but if the record is only a single page the printer wil print out the second page with only the header and footer on and a blank body. Is there any way in which i can automate the printingso that it will not print the second blank page if there is no information to go in the body . many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Kidd Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 You will only get the second page if your body ( or bodies ) require it. I suspect "Sliding Printing" of the fields etc in the body will cure this, make sure the "Reduce the size of the enclosing part" option is checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transit Posted January 29, 2004 Author Share Posted January 29, 2004 robert I had already selected what you had suggested so unfortunatly that has not solved the problem Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Kidd Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 If you send me the file I would be happy to take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 I've just been designing some stuff for a client and encountered the same problem. To alleviate it, I made a single-page layout (just title header, no header) and scripted the printing process to go to that layout first, go to the last page, and if the last page is >1, go to the other layout (with both title header and header) and print, otherwise print the single page version... -Stanley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 One of the traps that I've found with Title Header and Title Footer is that the Title Header only prints on the first page of the current print job. To explain: if there are ten records in the current found set and each record prints two pages, the Title Header appears only on the first page of the first record, the normal Header goes on the other pages of the nine records. At least with FMP 6.0v4. If you want to have the title Header printing on the first page of each record (in my case it was a letterhead in the Title header) then you need to print one record at a time ie, 10 print jobs for 10 records. It's reasonably easy to script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transit Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 thanks guys I like you idea Stanley and it works fine for me. I only do single print jobs but I understand what you mean Vaughan. If a field is going to be split across a page break is there a way to automate it to go onto the next page ? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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