Printing

[Terry Cano]

I'd like to print on both sides of the paper. So print pages 1, 3, 5 etc
and then 2,4,6, can't figure it out.
Thanks
Terry

[Bill Marriott]

Hi Terry,

A lot depends on your print driver. Many have built-in support for manual
double-sided printing. Even without that, you could (at least on Windows)
specify the Page Range as Pages: 1,3,5,7,9... and 2,4,6,8...

Check your printer driver to be sure. I'm pretty sure HP drivers let you do
this. It's really the best option.

If your printer doesn't support this, or you wanted to do it under script
control in FileMaker, you could kludge it. I think the best option would be
to create two new layouts:

First one (lets call it "Layout A") is a copy of the original but specify
the report should print in two columns, flowing vertically (down columns
first). Adjust the width of the column (by dragging on the dotted vertical
line between the white background and grey patterned background) to the full
width of the page. This will have the effect of printing your report like

1 2
----
3 4
----
5 6
----
7 8

(But you will not see the right column in preview mode.)

Second one (lets call it "Layout B") is a copy of Layout A, except you add a
title header equal to the length of a page. This will have the effect of
printing your report like

H 1
----
2 3
----
4 5
----
6 7
----
8

Just as in Preview, the right-hand column will not print; it simply falls
off the right edge.

Once you have these layouts set up, just print from Layout A, flip the
output over, add a blank sheet to the top, and print from Layout B. [This is
assuming your printer driver will print the "first page first" and not
"collate."]

You could be fancy and put this under script control with a fancy custom
dialog, "Flip the sheets over and add a blank sheet to the top. Click OK
when you have done this. [OK]" between the two print jobs.

A limitation of this approach is that you can't use "page number" symbols on
the layout; they won't be accurate.

Bill

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[ursus.kirk]

I use an application called fineprint. It is not free, but it is very good.

Ursus

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[Terry Cano]

Thanks folks for the advice.
I try to avoid the windows/printer though Epson has the printer drivers
the application usuallys does a better job at least if Acrobat Reader,
Finale and the
other applications that support odd/even printing.
I'll try it
Terry