PDF Exporter for Filemaker?

[sparling]

Anyone know of a acrobat (pdf) exporter for filemaker?

I guess really what I need is a way to import a filemaker report into acrobat. Anyone done such a thing?

LS

[Chuck]

If you have Acrobat (not Acrobat reader) it comes with a printer driver to create PDF documents from any application simply by printing it. If you don't have the full Acrobat, then there is PrintToPDF for Mac that can do the same thing, and I believe that there is a similar freeware utility for Windows.

Chuck

[SteveB]

I'm in the process of doing a user manual and wanted reports in the manual. I captured the reports with a screen capture program called Snagit, saved the output as a JPG and read the result into a text box in MS Word. After the manual was complete, I ran in into Acobat Distiller to create the PDF. The results were poor...pixilated but usable.

[LiveOak]

There is a shareware pdf print driver for the mac (you used the mac icon on the original post) called PrintToPDF, available at www.jwwalker.com. It's not as full featured as Acrobat, but works quite well.

-bd

[Expression836]

Here is a problem that I am experiencing with Acrobat with FMP. Any jpeg's on the screen do not come out in the written PDF file. I am using Acrobat 4.05a and all other applications work fine with any kind of graphic, but FMP 4.1, 5, and 5.5 will not work from my Mac (G3/MacOS9.1) but work fine with my PC's.

The shareware PDF writer that has been suggested works without fail! EXCELLENT!

(...but you would figure that the $218 (US) solution (Adobe) would actually the THE solution)

[Shadowfax]

I realize that this is an old thread, but I wanted to point this out to anyone in the future who's curious. There is a program out there called CutePDF that allows you to 'print' anything to PDF format. And best of all, it's completely free.

[After Hours]

On the Macintosh, creating PDFs is built into the standard print dialog box. It's part of the OS with no copy of Acrobat or a third-party tool required.

Link

[Chris Baumbach]

We have used both Cute PDF (mentioned above) and PDF995. (http://www.pdf995.com)

PDF995 comes as either a free (sponsored, highly annoying) version, or $10 version without the ads. I've used PDF995 extensively for CAD work, but haven't tried it with Filemaker.

[cjaeger]

or use PDFCreator (sourceforge.net), that's free AND excellent.