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PrinterSwitch plug-in for FileMaker

PrinterSwitch plug-in for FileMaker | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

Printing made easy

PrinterSwitch is a FileMaker Pro 14 plug-in for Windows and Mac that allows you to easily control printer switching from within your FileMaker solutions. Moreover, PrinterSwitch also allows automatic PDF creation from within FileMaker without the need for a third-party PDF printer driver. The name and destination of the PDF can both be set from within your solution.

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FileMaker Pro printing secrets

FileMaker Pro printing secrets | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

.It's always been easy to create a straightforward database in FileMaker Pro, and with the enhancements in FileMaker Pro 11 (still valid with FMP 13), even a newbie can start entering data immediately.

 

But it's more challenging to figure out how to create useable printed reports.

 

Here are a few tips that will help you design attractive and useful printed reports in FileMaker Pro.

 

... read more on Macworld.com blog

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Printing PDFs in FileMaker WebDirect | SeedCode + video (4'34")

Printing PDFs in FileMaker WebDirect | SeedCode + video (4'34") | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
FileMaker’s WebDirect offers some exciting deployment opportunities. However, not being able to create PDFs or print like we can with Pro and Go is a big limitation. 

For many of us, an invoice may exist in a database, but until it’s represented as a printable document, it’s just not a real invoice.

 

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Our friend and colleague John Renfrew has been doing some very impressive work bridging this gap between server PDF generation and FileMaker layouts.

We’re looking forward to the final results of his work here, set to be released early 2015 as we think basing PDFs on FileMaker layouts is an important part of the platform for all deployments.

 

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RemoteScripter - Printing PDFs on a Server | YouTube (10'13")

360Works has an amazing plugin called RemoteScripter. This allows a user to have FileMaker Server ask FileMaker Pro to run a script. It is very powerful and grants some heavily desired functionality to this awesome product.
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Watermark Background printing with FileMaker | Clickworks

Watermark Background printing with FileMaker | Clickworks | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
More and more invoices are sent as a PDF to customers. One of the drawbacks when sending your invoices digitally is that you loose the look and feel of a stationery on a printed version.

Not anymore! Since FileMaker 13 we can use an image as (watermark) background for your PDF version of a print. In that way the PDF and printed versions will look the same!

 

Explore how you can do that reading Clickworks blog

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