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Making a layout in filemaker have a default printing view regardless of who is printing.

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I have a file in filemaker with a specific view.

 

The problem i am having is that when i am on that view/layout and click on a button that saves the entire view as a pdf it cuts off most of the layout. Only part of it will fit on an 8.5 X 11.

 

I have to make the print layout be A3 sized and landscape to fit it all in.

 

I can set my print options on my local system and it works fine every time but if someone accessing the file remotely (since it is on filemaker server) tries to print it, it cuts off the layout and they have to change their print settings locally. this is problem because there are potentially 100's of users that will print from this layout and they will not all know to change their local print setup settings to accommodate the space that the view needs to print on one page.

 

is there a way to 

 

1) Set the default for the file to print on A3 landscape regardless of who is accessing it remotely?

 

2) Setup so that what it saves as a PDF is scales to 1 page for all who are trying to save it as a PDF?

 

 

Thanks again for the help as always!

 

-Erik

Hi etsmarines,

 

Have you checked out the Print Setup script step?

 

Make your own Print script and call that script step to specify your A3.

 

I hope this helps

 

-JohnAustin

Another consideration is whether all your users will have A3 paper loaded and/or available.

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