From the course: FileMaker Pro 12 Essential Training
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Previewing pages and print options - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 12 Essential Training
Previewing pages and print options
One of the benefits of FileMaker Pro is that you can print any layout that you can view on screen. So, this way, you don't have to create special print layouts, but there are some ways to approach creating layouts that can help you get better results. If you look at some of the tools that FileMaker gives you to visualize what layouts will look like when they print, then you can make all your layouts look like print layouts. The first of those tools is Preview mode. In Preview mode, you can see what a page will look like when it's printed, and you can also notice that there's page margins around the edge, those are taken into account as well. You can also change the orientation by clicking the Page Setup button while you're in Preview mode, and you can toggle between Landscape or Portrait. But when you're in Layout mode, you actually do have a visual indicator. You'll notice that you've got this dotted line here. You've got a dotted line on the right-hand side. You'll see that you've…
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