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5. Click OK.
6. Choose View menu > Preview Mode to check the margins.
Keep these points in mind:
1 In Layout mode, choose Layouts menu > Set Rulers to change the
unit of measure for margins. See “Using graphic rulers and ruler
gridlines” on page 7-20.
1 If you select Print in <value> columns for a layout and then specify
page margins, the columns resize to fit within the new margins. See
“Setting up to print records in columns” on page 6-8.
Showing page margins
You can display the margins in Layout mode exactly as they will
print. (Page margins always show in Preview mode.)
To display the page margins, in Layout mode, choose View menu >
Page Margins. The margins show up as a thin, dotted line around the
edges of the layout “page.” Page breaks appear as heavy, dashed
horizontal and vertical lines.
To hide the margins, choose View menu > Page Margins again.
Most printers can’t print to the edge of the paper. If you place objects
in the margins or outside the area the selected printer can print to, you
see them in Browse and Find modes, but don’t see the objects when
you preview or print.
About removing blank space from printed data
Often, the amount of information in the fields in your database
varies. When you print, FileMaker Pro can shrink field boundaries
and shift objects to the left or up on your layout to close up the blank
space caused when the information in a field doesn’t fill the field
boundary.
For example, in a catalog, a description for one item may be longer
than for another. If you use the sliding feature of FileMaker Pro, you
can close up the space between items and print more items per page.
Margins—
objects in this
area won’t print
Layout not showing margins
The selected printer can’t
print objects outside this line
Layout showing margins