FileMaker pages print wrong - FileMaker

[Miles Vorkosigan]

The strangest thing is happening to us. We are using FileMaker to
create forms; copying in commonly used forms throughout the office.
They are simple enough; questionaires and such for insurance quoting.

When we view the forms that we make on the screen, everything looks
perfect; i.e., the lines we place are aligned properly, the
checkboxes, etc. But when the pages are printed out, the lines are
off alignment, and sometimes are above or below the correct line, or
OVER the text, etc.

The odd thing is that if you zoom in the Layout or Browse view, the
same thing happens. I cannot seem to figure out why this happens, why
the form would look PERFECT on the screen and then print out
completely incorrectly. Can anyone please help? Our current solution
is to fiddle with our lines and objects on the screen so that they
print out okay, but then they look all messed up on the screen.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

[Whats@up?]

I reported a lot of problems just like yours to FileMaker. The
response was "we have a lot of problems in printing." That's it, no
investigation, no followup, no nothing. FileMaker support, in my
personal experience, is close to non-existant. And they wonder why
more companies don't feel they can rely on FileMaker solutions.

The problems I reported were interesting, in that it was the SCREEN
that was not displaying things correctly, not the print. I use
Windows. When I sent my FileMaker app to someone with a Mac, they saw
on the screen what I saw printed. Of course, though, I designed it for
the screen. That's probably why the zoom doesn't work for you. It
does. It's the full view that's wrong.



D

On 4 Sep 2003 11:27:03 -0700, [email]alphageekmindspring.com[/email] (Miles
Vorkosigan) wrote:

>The strangest thing is happening to us. We are using FileMaker to
>create forms; copying in commonly used forms throughout the office.
>They are simple enough; questionaires and such for insurance quoting.
>
>When we view the forms that we make on the screen, everything looks
>perfect; i.e., the lines we place are aligned properly, the
>checkboxes, etc. But when the pages are printed out, the lines are
>off alignment, and sometimes are above or below the correct line, or
>OVER the text, etc.
>
>The odd thing is that if you zoom in the Layout or Browse view, the
>same thing happens. I cannot seem to figure out why this happens, why
>the form would look PERFECT on the screen and then print out
>completely incorrectly. Can anyone please help? Our current solution
>is to fiddle with our lines and objects on the screen so that they
>print out okay, but then they look all messed up on the screen.
>
>Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

[Helpful Harry]

In article <hm5ilvo330j1or8pk5pn8e99nu1il6bbm24ax.com>, "Whatsup?"
<noreplynoreply.com> wrote:

> On 4 Sep 2003 11:27:03 -0700, [email]alphageekmindspring.com[/email] (Miles
> Vorkosigan) wrote:
>

> >The strangest thing is happening to us. We are using FileMaker to
> >create forms; copying in commonly used forms throughout the office.
> >They are simple enough; questionaires and such for insurance quoting.
> >
> >When we view the forms that we make on the screen, everything looks
> >perfect; i.e., the lines we place are aligned properly, the
> >checkboxes, etc. But when the pages are printed out, the lines are
> >off alignment, and sometimes are above or below the correct line, or
> >OVER the text, etc.
> >
> >The odd thing is that if you zoom in the Layout or Browse view, the
> >same thing happens. I cannot seem to figure out why this happens, why
> >the form would look PERFECT on the screen and then print out
> >completely incorrectly. Can anyone please help? Our current solution
> >is to fiddle with our lines and objects on the screen so that they
> >print out okay, but then they look all messed up on the screen.
> >
> >Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

>
> I reported a lot of problems just like yours to FileMaker. The
> response was "we have a lot of problems in printing." That's it, no
> investigation, no followup, no nothing. FileMaker support, in my
> personal experience, is close to non-existant. And they wonder why
> more companies don't feel they can rely on FileMaker solutions.
>
> The problems I reported were interesting, in that it was the SCREEN
> that was not displaying things correctly, not the print. I use
> Windows. When I sent my FileMaker app to someone with a Mac, they saw
> on the screen what I saw printed. Of course, though, I designed it for
> the screen. That's probably why the zoom doesn't work for you. It
> does. It's the full view that's wrong.
>
> D

This must be a Windows problem - I can't recall ever having such
problems on my Mac databases.

One tip though: NEVER, EVER try to align objects with text when zoomed
in or out - text doesn't display properly at zoomed sizes, you can only
trust the 100% zoom level.



Helpful Harry
"Just trying to help whenever I can." :o)

[dharlow]

I use the technique described at
[url]http://filemaker.advisor.com/articles.nsf/aid/08095[/url] to archive the
report and then print from the archive when I run into problems with
FileMaker's printing that is annoying the client. It seems to work every-
time so far.



Daniel


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