Printing large fields

[GregFM]

My database has a field that will contain text entered as a narrative. This may be a few or many paragraphs. To print this I made a print layout with the field taking up the entire area designated for printing. This prints nicely when the size of the narrative is smaller that the size of the field. When the narrative is larger than the field (ie you need to scroll to see the bottom), printing cuts out the unseen botton part of the field content. How can I have the rest of the field content print on a second page? Thanks.

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by GregFM:

My database has a field that will contain text entered as a narrative. This may be a few or many paragraphs. To print this I made a print layout with the field taking up the entire area designated for printing. This prints nicely when the size of the narrative is smaller that the size of the field. When the narrative is larger than the field (ie you need to scroll to see the bottom), printing cuts out the unseen botton part of the field content. How can I have the rest of the field content print on a second page? Thanks.

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Make you print area (i.e. the field) HUGE. Decided how many pages you are likely to have and make the field take up that many pages. Then make the field a sliding object and set it to reduce the size of the enclosing part.

This will give you the space you need, but not print out blank space.

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Kurt Knippel

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