Entering scanned PDF data

[Oldsneekers]

Here to fore I had a scanner that used photoshop so that each scanned document was a TIFF file that I manipulated with a script "insert picture" to get the document into a containor field in FM5. Now with FM7/8* I just bought a ScanSnap scanner that uses Acrobat 7.0 and the scanned document is now a PDF file. If I try to get the document into the container field, I see the icon for the document rather than the document itself. Is there a way to view the document as it is rather than the PDF icon. Or do I need to convert the PDF file to a picture and insert that into the FM7 container field?

* FM7/8 is listed above such as I got my brand spanken' new FM8 disc from File Maker but all the new databases it creates have the .fm7 apended to the new name, what gives?

Thanks for you attention. Have a productive weekend.

OS

[John Mark Osborne]

FileMaker 7, 8 and 8.5 all have the same file format so they share the same extension. While FileMaker 8 may have features unavailable in FileMaker 7, the file will still open but the feature won't work.

[Oldsneekers]

Thank,

Greg.

[stefanshotton]

You can view the document in the new web viewer as a local file, it will display images etc. havnt tried with tiff but should work