Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       I’ve had a chance to use FileMaker Go for a couple of months now, and I’ve been impressed with the amount of functionality they’ve managed to pack into a portable application – it’s a big improvement over the old FileMaker Mobile. Granted, it doesn’t have all the functionality of the desktop client, but  FileMaker does seem to be dedicated to supporting it. The 1.1.1 patch released in September adds several new features, ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 3 – 5 minutes       FileMaker Pro 8 introduced the much welcomed new feature “Print to PDF”. With version 9 comes a further refinement which enables users to append information to an existing PDF file. One application of this could be a report that involves data from several different formats (ie: sub summaries or lists), from various layouts, or from subsets of records that otherwise could not be formed in one layout or output. With a little creativity a single report can now ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 6 – 9 minutes       Printing into a PDF document has long been an option for Mac OS X users, while Windows users could utilize third-party applications to redirect printing from the printer to a PDF file. Then FileMaker 8 introduced the option to Save/Send Records as PDF… , a slightly misleading reference to a print as PDF functionality. (See a review of this feature in Issue 29 of For FileMaker.) Although it seemed there was no place left for any third-party solutions, ... Read More