Chris wrote:
> If I wanted 10 copies, I duplicated the record 10 times, then told it to
> just print all records... resulting in 10 copies of the same data being
> printed (FMP thinks it is 1 copy each of 10 different records, but the
> end result is the same).
jagermeister at localbar dot com wrote:
> i'd use quickeys, simple!
Thanks Chris and 'jagermeister'
Unfortunately neither sugestion is completely suitable. Quickeys might work
(and I will investigate) but my gut feeling is there would be problems.
Let me explain further:-
There could be something like 200-300 records to be printed . The number of
copies of each record could range between 10 and 500. Each record would
contain a field that had the number of copies required but this field would
not be on the layout being printed (hence my thought that Quickeys would not
be the solution). The printing would be done by a high speed digital printer
that has the ability to keep each ?job? separate. Simply printing a record
500 times from Filemaker by either creating 500 records or printing in a
loop would cause the printer to think that each page was a separate job. It
seems to me that the only solution is to have some way of entering the
number of copies into the Print dialog and hence the printer could be told
to print 500 copies as part of a ?job?.
Problem: How can I get access to the Print Dialog for a batch run? Is there
an Apple Event? Is the Print dialog Applescriptable? Could I use a RealBasic
application to communicate with FileMaker and with the Print driver? or???
Question: How does Filemaker or RealBasic communicate with the Printer
Driver? Is it via AppleEvents or....???
Any further advice would be most welcome.
Karl Holmes
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