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how do I Print a Report to PDF file?

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First off let me say I am working on a solution which must work on Mac and Windows XP.

I would like to print a report/layout to a pdf file.

I tried this by just doing a print and picking pdfWriter and the text is gobbley-gooky looking. The characters have been mutated (heh heh) to something else like russian looking text. Has anyone had this problem? What's the fix?

looks great on the mac, but on windows it's like above.

oh and on windows it's windows XP sp1 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Pro.

thanks for your help in advance,

sincerely,

J__ confused.gif

Use Scansoft PDF Create.

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what about mailing this?

It looks like pdf create does not have any explicit plug-in support for scripting.

any suggestions in regard to that?

thanks for your previous suggestion and help.

sincerely,

J__

Script | Print Setup | PDF Create

  • 2 weeks later...

But I don't read German!!

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I believe there is a little US flag in the upper right hand corner, which takes you to an english page.

Here's the link it goes to

http://www.gotomaxx.com/cgi-bin/gm/site.cgi?lan=us

hope that helps,

sincerely,

J__

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply, I finally got back to this, other things have popped up, as i'm sure you yourself have probably experienced, I tracked down Scansoft's PDF Create and whiel it states it works with "all platforms" (including Mac OS)... once you go to buy it, it specifically says "Windows" and nothing about mac.

do you have a link, which states differently?

thanks,

sincerely,

J__ confused.gif

  • 1 month later...

"I would like to print a report/layout to a pdf file.

I tried this by just doing a print and picking pdfWriter and the text is gobbley-gooky looking."

I'm having the same problem as noted above. The responses confused me.

Sorry for being the clueless one.. Help !

Sounds like more of an issue with your PDF writer than Filemaker. What do you use to create PDFs?

J

I use Acrobat PDF writer.

It works fine when i use Filemaker 6.0

I'm using Acrobat PDF Writer 5.0

It worked fine when i was using FMP 6.0

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