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Printing Variable Field Lenghts

bretetaylor
in Printing

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Greetings,

I am working on a database solutiuon designed to store and ease report production for a local law enforcement agency. When printing out "the case report", one of the fields is a narritave that can either be one paragraph or in some cases, pages in length. While a scroll bar works well for inputting, I am having difficulty finding a way to have FileMaker compensate for the potential field length differences on the hardcopy printout. Any ideas?

A couple of possibilities come to mind. The simplest may be to have a separate print layout that contains a merge field. Make the layout really, really long, and have the merge field fill that layout. The use the "sliding" feature to minimize the printout to the actual text.

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I believe that under the circumstances that this will work nicely... Thank you for your help!

-Bret

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