... I change the printer, and it remains the "default" as long as
the database remains open. However, when I close the database and
reopen it later, the original printer is back in the default
status....
Page setup options can be saved/restored in your FileMaker
databases. Bu the default printer is a function of your operating
system, not FileMaker.
Ah, would that it were so. I do, indeed, have Printer A set as the
system-wide default printer in System Preferences|Print & Fax; and,
sure enough, every application and document in the system seems to
recognize that and aims at Printer A by default...
... with a single exception. There is one FMP database that has
somehow gotten pointed to Printer B as its default, and no amount of
changing the printer within the database nor in System Preferences
will change that with anything resembling permanence.
So, my question really boils down to: how can I get a specific FMP
database to recognize that it should point to the system default
device, Printer A, not Printer B, whenever I open it? In case it
helps, I have also noticed that this particular database always opens
to a specific record in a specific layout, no matter what record was
being browsed in what layout when I last closed the database. IOW,
the database seems to have frozen its startup state, no matter how I
leave it.
Also, FWIW, there are no scripts defined for the problematic
database, so I'm pretty sure that nothing unseen is going on in the
background which might create the apparent startup state. All other
FileMaker operations appear to function without any problem in this
database, and all other FMP databases behave themselves quite
satisfactorily.
All references to FMP are FileMaker Pro Advanced 10.0v3; and the
operating system is Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Cures? Ideas? Please.
Thanks,
John French
