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Creating and managing layouts and reports
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ILEMAKER PRO HELP 282
Only one label prints
• Open the Print dialog box to see if you are printing only the current record.
Data doesn't print within each label
Tip When fixing label printing problems, print the first sheet of your labels on plain paper and hold
the printout and the label template sheet together up to a light to see if they are aligned.
• Make sure your paper size is set appropriately for the type of printer and labels that you’re
using. Follow the instructions in
Printing labels to set the paper size for your layout.
• If you’re printing on continuous-feed label paper using a dot-matrix printer and your layout
contains a header part, delete the header part. For more information, see
Deleting layout
parts.
• If you’re printing to sheets of labels, some laser and ink jet printers cannot print within 0.25
inches of the top of the paper. (Check your printer documentation for this information.) Use
a ruler to measure the distance from the top of the label paper to the top of the first row of
labels. If the distance is less than the minimum margin your printer requires, increase the
height of the header part to include the first row of labels, so that printing starts at the top of
the second row. FileMaker
Pro won't print on the first row of labels, but it prints in the correct
position on subsequent labels.
• If all labels are too high or too low by the same amount, resize the header part.
• If the labels move increasingly higher on the page, make the body part one point larger and
try again. Repeat until the labels fit the page properly.
• If the labels move increasingly lower on the page, make the body part one point smaller and
try again. Repeat until fixed.
For more information on resizing layout parts, see Resizing layout parts.
There are blank lines in labels
• Check for extra carriage returns in the field: go to the problem record and click in the field. If
it expands, there may be an extra carriage return in it. Delete it.
The last row of labels on each sheet isn't printing
• Choose Layouts menu > Part Setup. Select the Body part, and click Change. In the Part
Definition dialog box, look to see whether Allow part to break across page boundaries is
selected, and then do the following:
If Allow part to break across page boundaries is not selected, then select this option, and
also select Discard remainder of part before new page. Then click OK, and try printing again.
(You may also want to try printing with Allow part to break across page boundaries selected
and Discard remainder of part before new page cleared.)
For more information, see Adding a layout part and Defining page breaks and numbering.
Troubleshooting layouts that do not appear or print as expected
The following topics describe common problems and solutions when printing layouts.
Fonts on screen look fuzzy or jagged
• You may want to change the font smoothing settings:
• Windows: See Setting general preferences.