Troubleshooting layouts that do not appear or print as expected
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On Mac OS, you can set font smoothing options in the Mac OS General System Preference. For more information, see Mac Help.
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The objects might have been formatted as nonprinting. In Layout mode, select the object, and choose Format menu > Sliding/Printing. Make sure Do not print the selected objects is deselected. For more information, see Preventing objects from printing.
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See if Print dialog box is set to print the Current record instead of Records being browsed. To see this option in Mac OS, click the word Copies & Pages to open the pop-up menu, then choose FileMaker Pro.
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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
 , 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. |
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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:
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If Allow part to break across page boundaries is selected, clear the checkbox, click OK, and try printing again.
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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.
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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. For more information, see About layout part types.
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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.
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Only objects within the margins print. The page boundary is visible in Layout mode (you might need to scroll to the right) as a heavy dotted line.
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Choose File menu > Print Setup (Windows) or Page Setup (Mac OS), and change the paper orientation to landscape so that more columns of fields will print
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In Preview mode, you can also click Print Setup (Windows) or Page Setup (Mac OS) in the status toolbar.
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In Layout mode, adjust the width and position of the fields to make them all fit to the left of the heavy dotted line, or
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Create a second columnar list layout with the fields that don't fit on the first layout. See information about layout types.
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Set objects to slide, and try setting the sliding options to also reduce the size of the enclosing layout part. For more information, see Removing blank spaces in printouts.
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There might be at least one object (for example, a line) that is not set to slide and is preventing other objects from sliding.
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Portal rows don't collapse even if they hold less data. Empty portal rows at the end of the list of related records do collapse.
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A tab control will slide, but it won’t shrink. Objects inside a tab control do not slide or shrink. When you print a form, only the selected tab panel is printed.
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Choose Layouts menu > Part Setup, and check each part for page break settings that should be disabled. For more information, see Defining page breaks, numbering, and background fill.
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