110 Inch layout limit

[Tobin]

Is there any way to get around the 110 inch layout limit? Using more than one layout will not work I don't think.

I have approx 550 records to print, and it must be done in one print run (Am using the digital copier to double side, fold and staple).

Thanks.

[kurt mitenbuler]

Nope; it's limited to 110" (actually, I thought it was 111". It sucks, but that is it.

[DykstrL]

The only thing you can do is change to a Landscape orientation - it still has a 111" limit, but gives you a little more real estate to work with.

[BobWeaver]

Can you explain why your layout needs to be so big? Did you mean 550 fields rather than 550 records?

[Tobin]

dykstrl - Thanks, but it's already in Landscape.

BobWeaver - Actually it's about a total of 1200 fields, located in several tables.

The reason why I want it so big, is I want a 20 A4 page report (and it would have to be portrait). It's currently 20xA5 pages (printed on landscape A4) to make a booklet, but it would be much easier if I could let the photocopier reduce everything for me, so it could do all the folding/stapling in one run, rather than having to put all the paper back through again.

[BobWeaver]

This may or may not help. You can try setting the scale in your page setup to greater than 100%. For example, the Apple Laserwriter driver allows up to 400%. If you set it to that, then Filemake will still think it's working on a 110" layout even though it prints out 440 inches.

To compensate, you have to scale everything down on your Filemaker layout by the corresponding amount. Eg, use 3 point fonts instead of 12 point etc.