Formatting Printing Field efinitions and Script Definitions

[Graham3D]

How do I control the fonts, fonts, page size and formatting when printing Field Definitions and Script Definitions in FM Pro 16 onwards?

I am trying to print out all my field definitions. (I know you can do this through the File>Manage>Database>Tables       Print>all)

I want to output this as a booklet (A5). But when I print that, it just makes everything smaller and unreadable. 

I do not like the font style (and size) and I want to customise the page so that it is readable in a booklet.

At the moment, my option is to copy the definitions one-by-one into word or excel (or OCR the pdf) which is crazy when I am trying to speed up my workflow.

 

 

[AHunter3]

As opposed to how you used to do it in Fm Pro 15 and earlier?  I didn't know there was ever any control over that, how'd you do it in the older versions?

I suppose you could print to PDF, then select the contents, paste into a plain text document, save, import into FileMaker, then parse out the annoying page-footer stuff that ends up in the PDF so you're left with the field defs.  Then export that back out as text, open it in a word processor, format it, and print it.  Admittedly it does seem like we should have options from the start. 

 

[Graham3D]

On 2/18/2021 at 6:25 PM, AHunter3 said:

As opposed to how you used to do it in Fm Pro 15 and earlier?  I didn't know there was ever any control over that, how'd you do it in the older versions?

I suppose you could print to PDF, then select the contents, paste into a plain text document, save, import into FileMaker, then parse out the annoying page-footer stuff that ends up in the PDF so you're left with the field defs.  Then export that back out as text, open it in a word processor, format it, and print it.  Admittedly it does seem like we should have options from the start. 

 

Yes. I have version 16, and I do not want to upgrade yet as newer versions do not add much. Although I have heard that it has been fixed in version 17 upwards. I think the answer is to print a pdf, OCR it, copy the text into Word and then format it.... or just put up with it.