Better Print Previews
When you think about printing these days, you probably think about saving the environment and just sending out the digital version. Of course, it turns out that many solutions still need to use the good old paper method and print something out. The great thing about having the data in a digital format beforehand is that you can preview the content before you actually hit that potentially wasteful print button.
This video covers just a few of the possible methods for previewing content created for output. You may have already discovered how easy it is to simply take a user into Preview Mode and allow them to make whatever choices FileMaker provides, but, you'll now have more options available as you can easily use a Dialog or Card window in order to present a more customized view of the possible options a user may have.
If you've struggled with automatically generating your printable reports as PDF files, and then injecting them into container fields, then you'll certainly love to learn from what this video has to offer!
Comments
Printing multiple PDF pages
That's a very interesting topic. But reports can be usually have more than one page. How can i print directly a multiple page pdf report without using external applications like Preview or Acrobat Reader? The only way i found is using the mbs plugin. I need a solution for Mac and Windows.
Any suggestions?
Why would PDF show only as an icon?
I've incorporated your process into mine. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is the PDF now showing the report - only as an icon. If I export the file, the report shows, so I know the report is there.
Your file doesn't seem to work?
When I download and run your file it doesn't display the PDF in the new way you demonstrate. It is blank. The other way works (the lesser way). I am using 19. I don't know if anyone reads these.