Printing Setups in a Script

[AFK]

Hello, I have some reports that need to be printed on different printers with either landscape or portait layout. One script runs a production report on the hp1300 laser in landscape (print sideways on the paper). But in the same database we may need to run a different script to diff printer as potrait layout(normal printing). When selecting that specific sript the report will always be printing the same way all the time. Therefore is there a way for the script to remember and keep that information in the script to which printer and the setup for that printer. Is this a windows issue or can filemaker control this printing setup and remember it when this script is call again to run?

Corey

[shannon34]

I have had the same issue and use a mac. I have not been able to figure out how to have the script save the print setting. I did read somewhere that the print settings in preview mode cannot be saved. This seems strange since you wouldn't want your db users to have to manually set them each time.

And what is the script page setup used for if it can't be used to save the print settings?

[-Queue-]

In versions before 7, you can save one print setting per script. Either manually perform a setup and print and then create your script, or perform a setup and print, open an existing script containing Print/Page Setup and Print steps, click OK, and then select the option to 'Replace' print setup. Either way, be sure that both Print/Page Setup and Print steps are in the script, since print settings are saved with the Setup step, not the Print step.

The last printer specified in Print/Page Setup will be used for the next print job. So you may want to have a button to 'Change Printer', which merely triggers a Print/Page Setup script step and allows a different printer to be selected before a particular report is performed.