Opening Image from Container Field

[Ricardo]

Hi All,

Once again i wasnt sure where to post this thread but seen as though im using BT i will post here!!

i would lke to open an image i have in a container field.

E.g. a PDF file...i have inserted in to the the container field and i know there is a way to open up this file in acrobat and have seen this working before...but cant remember how it was done!

Does anybody know how to do this?!

Thanks in advance.

[Søren Dyhr]

It's a feature you get when documents are referenced, the benefit it that your document get piped straight into the application. I sus you have it stored blob'ish - which means you have to script it out of filemaker to say the desktop, and with that in place use the Send Event[ step tell application Acrobat to open it ...but it produces litter on your desktop!!! So as soon as the document is opened in Acrobat is it time via a batchfile or such to get rid of it again.

--sd

[Ricardo]

Thankss for your reply...i dont believe thats how i saw it working previously...

It just opened up the document...beit PDF, jpeg etc.

I believe another field referenced the path.

Can you define exactly what you mean?

thanks again.

[Søren Dyhr]

--sd

[Ricardo]

Where exactly is that folder located?

I dont follow. I was under the understanding this was all done through some method in Filemaker.

Im on a Windows system!!

[Ricardo]

sorry...figured it out!

thanks again

[Ricardo]

IS there a way i can view a thumbnail of a PDF rather than just a link and then open up the thumbnail in to the application i.e. acrobat?

[Joe Fab]

Try this

http://filemaker.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/filemaker.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4125&p_created=1115172802&p_sid=wIlwCl8i&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NjEmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PW9wZW4gZmlsZSBwYXRo&p_li=&p_topview=1

or this

"On Mac OS X, FileMaker Pro can import a folder of Portable Document Format (PDF) files into a container field. Each PDF file appears in QuickTime format. To display different pages in a multi-page PDF file, click the PDF file container field and use QuickTime controls.

Along with the container field to store the PDF files, create a text field to store their file path data. During import, map the File Path data to the field that you created to store it. Once the import is complete you can open the PDF file directly from FileMaker Pro by doing the following:

• Highlight the text in the File Path field, and Control-click the field, then choose Open File from the context menu that appears.

Alternatively you can automate the process with ScriptMaker. You can create a script that uses the Open URL script step to open the file. For example:

Open URL [No dialog, "file://c:/My_File.pdf"]

OR

Open URL [No dialog; MyTable::FilePath]

Where MyTable is the current table of the file and FilePath is the field that contains the file path data."

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hope this helps