Printing labels through IWP

[YKB]

Hi,

I'm having a problem when viewing and printing my label layout through instant web publishing.

If I go directly through Filemaker and go into preview for the label layout, it presents and then prints them the way that it should.

But when I access it through the instant web publishing, it only shows me one label at a time, and when I view it as a list, it just makes a normal list, not one that conforms to the label layout (which I see in Filemaker)

Also when I print it, it doesn't print according to the margins specified in the layout.

Can anyone help me with this please?

YK

[Vaughan]

Preview mode isn't supported in IWP.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

IWP is not designed for this purpose. Use FileMaker Pro instead.

Steven

[YKB]

Thanks for the quick reply... I understand that IWP may not support the preview mode, but shouldn't it still print the same way that it does when I press print through FileMaker Pro?

For example: In FileMaker Pro, when I browse for some records and then view it in the label layout and press print (WITHOUT going into preview mode) it prints me the labels exactly the way that they should appear

So then through IWP, why isn't it possible for me to do the browse and press print, and have the labels printed in the same way?

The users who have requested this function will not have access to FileMaker Pro; this is why we have purchased the server version as well. Is there anyway of setting up IWP to allow me to do this?

[Vaughan]

"I understand that IWP may not support the preview mode, but shouldn't it still print the same way that it does when I press print through FileMaker Pro?"

No. Because it's being printed by the web browser. The browser has no idea how the labels should appear.

To complicate matters, it probably won't be consistent between different browsers either. This is the nature of the web.

(BTW this happens with all browser interfaces, not just FMP. Web interfaces for big-iron corporate systems have the same limitations.)

One way around it is to create a pdf of the labels, and send the pdf to the client. I don't think this would be possible in IWP though.

[YKB]

Alright, thanks for your help :

YKB