Thanks, looks like that's what's happening. I am really loath to upgrade to Filemaker 11, since they keep moving away from what I want the program to be. And I hate their moving the side bar to the top, because it's "more like Microsoft® Office®."
On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Jeff Almquist wrote: > Are you running Show Leopard on your Mac? If so, the inability to print from > FileMaker 8.5 a known issue: > > http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7355/~/mac-os-x-v10.6-snow-leopard-compatibility-with-filemaker-9-and-earlier-versions > > So you would either need to upgrade FileMaker or downgrade your OS. > > Jeff > > > On Aug 16, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Peter Payne wrote: > >> I've got a Mac running Filemaker 8.5 trying to print to an Epson printed >> being shared through an Airport Express Base Station. The Mac can print to >> the printer fine, except for one oddity: Filemaker Pro cannot print, and >> when I hit command P to print the record I need, it...refuses to let me >> click the Print button. Nothing will make that button press when printing >> from Filemaker Pro, though it's possible to make a PDF and then print that >> from Preview. >> >> Does anyone have any recommendations about how I might solve this? It's >> frustrating and embarrassing since I'm bringing PC users over and trying to >> explain why the Mac usually works fine, but just not in this one case.
