PDF conversion

[nanni]

I'm a little new to FM. I have spent the whole morning creating an invoice template. How do I convert a file into a pdf so I can email it. Any help would be much appreciated.

[dbruggmann]

Do you need a PDF of one invoice (1 record in your table)?

Or do you need many PDFs of many invoices in your file?

Or do you need one PDF document, which contains many invoices?

Anyway, with Mac OS X you can save a PDF document in every application by simply choosing the option

[Tony O]

You can do it by printing; OSX has a "Save as PDF" button right there in the print dialog.

Or, of you'd like to send the pdf straight to an email client, employ Applescript;

Add a folder "PDF Services" to ~/Library or /Library; then put an applescript in it like such (this is an entourage example)

on open these_items

try

set this_file to item 1 of these_items

tell application "Finder"

set the file_name to the name of this_file

set the parent_folder to (the container of this_file) as alias

end tell

tell application (path to frontmost application as string)

repeat

display dialog "Enter a name for file:" default answer file_name

set this_name to the text returned of the result

if this_name is not "" then exit repeat

end repeat

end tell

tell application "Finder"

set the name of this_file to this_name

set the target_file to