printing labels from filemaker layout... wierdness

[Batfastad]

Hi

We use filemaker 6 on windows 2000/xp

We have been printing out labels successfully for some time though there's always been a slight annoyance.

We use the 16 to a page avery J8162 (A4) labels and these print fine.

Apart from on certain USA labels the label on the right hand side, 2nd from bottom develops an extra line break between two of the address lines.

This happens on every page where that particular label is USA.

On other labels, Germany etc this doesn't happen.

And the rest of the USA labels print fine.

The problem doesn't appear when you view the labels in preview mode either.

Anyone know what could be causing this?

I don't understand why it doesn't happen to any other labels apart from the right hand side, 2nd to last row label.

When printing to a PDF that doesn't happen, but other weird line breaks seem to pop into the address labels at random. Even though they look fine in preview mode.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks

Ben

[Batfastad]

Interestingly enough, when printing to PDF it seems to be the right-hand label on the second from *top* row that gets this problem. On every page!

But again, it looks perfect in preview mode in filemaker.

The labels print fine, it just looks really weird.

Also, it doesn't look like the height of a line break - I've already checked the data in the merge fields to make sure they've not got inadvertent line breaks in.

The height of the gap between address lines looks to be just under that of a full line break.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ben

[eJK]

I've had some similar weirdness with printing / preview mode labels, particularly with how the sliding / slide option behaves. What I've done to remedy it: rebuild the layout (from scratch, not copy & paste) checking the preview mode as I add each new element to ensure that the behavior is correct. Eventually you can get a layout that functions how you want it. Many posts on these forums refer to strangeness with sliding, portals and other elements when printing.