Save as PDF Problem

[Tbon]

I recently deployed a solution and it was working fine, except I had a report that kept printing in portrait instead of landscape. I also had another report that saved to the desktop as a PDF file and associated it to an email, it worked fine. I fixed the landscaping problem and redeployed the solution, now I cannot save the PDF report. It works fine on my computer but will not work on the on the other computer. I deployed it as a runtime solution. The script works fine but it seems to be skipping the "save as PDF". What am I doing wrong.

[Vaughan]

Runtimes cannot use the PDF functionality. There is no work-around (other than deploying the FM Pro client).

[Tbon]

When I first deployed the runtime the PDF function did work.

[Tbon]

I understand that through the runtime you cannot save as PDF, but I created a script saving as pdf. Then deployed the runtime and the script saved the report as a PDF. But now the script seems to skip the PDF portion.

[Vaughan]

You may have created a run-time, but it must have been opened by the FM Pro client, not the runtime engine for the Save Records PDF script step to function.

Note that in MacOS X, the print dialog always displays the option to save as pdf. This is independent of the "Save Records as PDF" command in FMP.

From the FMP Advanced Read Me file:

6. Runtime

6.1. Runtime applications created with FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced do not include the ability to create Adobe® PDF files. As such, the Save Records as PDF feature is not available in runtime applications.