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Creating and managing layouts and reports
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• OS X: You can set font smoothing options in the OS X General System Preference. For
more information, see OS
X Help Center.
Report with grouped data and subtotals (subsummary report) doesn't print
correctly
• See Troubleshooting layouts with summary or subsummary parts.
Fields or objects aren’t printing
• The objects might have been formatted as nonprinting. In Layout mode, select the object. In
the Sliding & Visibility area of the Inspector, make sure Hide when printing is deselected.
Only one record is printing
• Make sure the Print dialog box is set to print Records being browsed instead of Current
record.
• Check your found set to make sure it contains all the data that you want to print. See
Finding records.
• The layout has mistakenly been set to display in two or more columns while the width of the
column (the white area of the layout) has been made too wide to fit the number of columns
selected within the printable area of the page. This results in groups of records (specifically,
those which would fall in the columns which are off the right side of the page) not printing. To
remedy the situation, in Layout mode, click Layout Setup
in the layout bar, click the
Printing tab, and set the number of columns to the desired amount. Then, if necessary,
adjust the right margin of the column by clicking and dragging the vertical dashed line on the
layout.
• 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 one of the following:
• If Allow part to break across page boundaries is selected, clear the checkbox, click
OK, and try printing again.
• 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.
See Adding a layout part.
An extra blank page prints after each page
• The layout extends just below the page boundary. In Layout mode, look across the bottom
of the layout for a heavy dotted horizontal line, which indicates where the page breaks.
Move a layout part up until the dotted line disappears. See
About layout part types.
Some records in the portal don't print
• In Layout mode, resize the portal to increase the number of rows that the portal will print.
• If the portal is defined to display matching records from a related table, you can instead go
to a layout that displays records from that table, find the records you want, and print a list
from the layout.
For more information about portals, see Creating portals to display related records.