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Displaying PDF files in FileMaker

Displaying PDF files in FileMaker | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
Displaying frequently referenced PDF files in a web viewer is convenient for users and adds depth and interactivity to a layout.

 

This article includes a simple step-by-step guide for displaying PDFs in FileMaker, as well as a backend look at why this works.

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Connecting FileMaker to Word, Excel, PDFs with Scribe 2 | FileMaker - YouTube (12'13")

Use Scribe to automate processing of Microsoft Office and PDF files. Populate forms, insert images, highlight changes between versions of documents, manipulate Microsoft Word and Excel tables, retrieve metadata form Excel table cells, secure PDF files.

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360Works Scribe: FileMaker plug-in to read and write PDF, Word, Excel files

360Works Scribe: FileMaker plug-in to read and write PDF, Word, Excel files | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

Scribe is the ultimate text processing plug-in for Filemaker.


Use it to read and write text from Microsoft Office and PDF files, find what changed in a text field, and highlight text matching any criteria.


- Scribe can read and write Excel documents,


- Scribe can read and write Word documents,


- Scribe can read and write PDF forms.

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PDF Manipulator DC – Your secret weapon for integrating FileMaker with Adobe Acrobat

PDF Manipulator DC – Your secret weapon for integrating FileMaker with Adobe Acrobat | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

... this powerful plug-in provides a bidirectional data exchange between FileMaker® and Adobe® Acrobat Pro. It can:

  • Insert or extract data between PDF form fields and FileMaker
  • Extract text content and metadata from a PDF document directly into your FileMaker solution, eliminating the need to hand key information
  • Once the data is in FileMaker, you can search through a PDF’s content and determine what page of the document the searched content appears on
  • Combine and delete multiple PDF documents into a single PDF from within FileMaker Pro
  • Insert any number of PDF pages anywhere into an existing PDF document
  • Delete individual pages or a range of pages from a PDF
  • Browse for a document from inside FileMaker
  • Access, open, and save PDFs to file folders

 

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How to generate a PDF and store it in a container field in FileMaker Go

How to generate a PDF and store it in a container field in FileMaker Go | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
Generating a PDF file and storing it in a container field seems straightforward enough, but if you are using FileMaker Go, you'll want to keep the following in mind:

When the PDF is created, it needs to be temporarily stored on the file system, so that it can then be inserted into the container field.

 

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