Could someone briefly outline the limitations of an FM 8 runtime (besides lack of comm with server) please? I've had a look all over the place but google has failed me..

Cheers guys.

1. No web publishing.

2. No file sharing (no peer to peer)

3. Limited editing (don't remember exact items) in the runtime IF you don't have a full version of FMP to launch into locally. (think updating or changes to structure)

Essentially it's FMP standalone.

HTH.

Hmmmm, rightio that seems good,

Cheers, Genx

Don't forget, no save to PDF!

ah well, wat u gonna do, general export is still supported though right?

A run time file can export to excel (and the 'send to...' menu item is also still active, but only send to excel)

It must be a licensing issue with adobe, or FMP just wants you to sell FMP not just run times! :

nah, they're just cheap, they didnt want to fork out an extra bit of cash :

It's actually quite outrageous. The only way to re-enable creating PDFs with with an expensive ($500) plugin on Windows.

Steve

... yeah, what was ever wrong with cute pdf, or something similar, surely theres some sort of decent pdf generating freeware out there :

Genx

Don't know if this is of any use

http://www.rarefind.com/paperlessprinter/downloads.html

Phil

I am also looking at creating stand alone apps... what is your idea of this? is says it can't work on networks. So it only runs itself? no connection to a local network PC?

But if you creat a stand alone, can it use the network if the customer buys FMP?

The runtime is just that. Its a stand alone solutions. The runtime solution does not require FMP. If the end user has a copy of FMP, then they can use the original solution prior to converting to a runtime. The runtime solution can not communicate with the FMP solution. Again it is stand alone.

The best alternative I've found for PDF generation is CutePDF and ghostscript -- google it.

Please see comments I made in http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/182276/all/1/