+2Using Page Designer to create station manifests for events and they look amazing on screen, not so much on paper. Only the first page prints, the rest of the pages are blank. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but still getting blank pages.
When I print I see this instruction: “You’ll need to manually enable background images and/or background colors in your print settings in order to make the page print properly.” What does that mean? Where do I change this setting and how do I change it?
+2To make it weirder, the blank page only happens when I use a Windows machine. When I print to PDF on my Mac, all the pages are there. However, some fields are not fully displaying. Images with transparent backgrounds now print with a black background.
This page designer block is cool, it looks great online, but printing to PDF or paper doesn’t give you what you see on screen. Seem very quirky.
+1I solved my problem by choosing
at “Settings” the record size “Legal”
and “Print” settings the paper size “A4”
maybe it’s because I don’t have a mac
+2For anyone finding this (old) topic - the partial solution is to ensure "Print Backgrounds" is ticked in your print dialogue. The extension does mention this somewhere in it's docs. I had the same pain.
I say partial because I'm still getting every second page as blank.. but at least I'm getting all records.
+7This is happening to me across both Windows and Mac machines. I have verified page sizes and “Print Background”.
Is there anything else I can do to troulbeshoot this issue?
+4A working page designer layout for several years just started doing this. There were no other changes. Works on Mac, not on PC. print to MS pdf or Cutepdf writer.
+35Be sure to report these bugs to support@airtable.com, and hopefully Airtable will fix them soon.
But sadly, Airtable has not put much effort into Page Designer in nearly a decade, so it has tons of limitations — including that it can’t be automated, it can’t run from interfaces, it can’t create PDF files on its own, it can’t elegantly handle documents that aren’t exactly one page in length, it can’t automatically insert documents into attachment fields, it doesn’t let you copy your Page Designer layouts to other tables or bases, and so much more.
So I would highly recommend using a 3rd-party app to generate documents instead.
Here are a few popular 3rd-party apps for generating documents from Airtable:
Hope this helps!
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