Email a record

[juststo]

Is there a way to email a record to someone? I see that FM has the email function, but that just opens a blank email. How can I attach the current record being browsed to that email?

[Wim Decorte]

The record is a FM object and not something you can take out like that and email.

You'll need to compose the email using the data in the record.

Or in 8 you can do a "save as PDF" and email that out...

[T-Square]

You can send out a record via email if you create a calculation that includes the parts of the record you want, and then use the Send Mail script step to pump it out. Alternatively, you could put the calculation directly in the Send Mail script.

[juststo]

Ok, I was afraid that I couldn't do a wysiwyg email of a record.

Instead, I have been trying to create a PDF with adobe PDFwriter and distiller and the email that. Unfortunately, the fonts come out gibberish. This is only for FMP, other apps work great. Anyone familiar with distiller enough to tell me what the problem might be?

[T-Square]

I've had the same problem; I can't locate anything online that answers the problem... What version of Distiller are you using?

[juststo]

5.0

I couldn't find it online either.

[T-Square]

I have Acrobat 5 as well.

Filemaker Knowledge Base article 5336 has this:

"Text is not generated correctly using Adobe Acrobat PDFWriter version 5.0. In some cases the text is illegible where different characters are printed."

They recommend using Distiller for generating pdfs, although my experience has been that it don't work neither. I'm going to see whether another (free) means of pdf generation can be used more successfully.

HTH,

David