i would like to create a script that will auto-email a pdf'ed version of a report to the email address on the report's layout. i have FMP 9. Save record to PDF doesn't give me a way to specify the email address. Perhaps there's a way to combine Print with Mail but manual steps would be required to make the pdf. Surely there's a way.

I haven't done this, but you could save the pdf to the temp directory with a known file name, then call the send mail step and attach the file that was just exported.

ah yes, lovely. that works. filemaker needs to add the option of making the filename a result of a calculation. while this solution works ok, clients will get reports or invoices each time with the same name. seems kinda obvious that people would want to control the filename.

You can use a variable to specify the exported filename (actually the file path, including the name).