Print 5 layouts, print container 1, print 3 layouts, print container 2, print 2 layouts, print containers 3 and 4) move to next record repeat. We are trying to create scripting that will enable us to print the entire file in the proper sequential order so that it is pre collated. To make matters more complicated we then have to hand collate the documents to insert the separately printed container PDF's and associate them with the other printed docs. As you can imagine this becomes very time consuming. Our solution requires us to batch print large amounts of documents from found sets within our database.Įach record has a series of layouts that must be printed in a specific order and a collection of attachments (container fields) that must also be printed.Ĭurrently we are able to batch print all the filemaker layout documents in the proper sequential order for a batch, (Average 20 records per batch, each record having 10 pages = 200 Pages (without corresponding attachments)īecause of filemaker's limitations however we must then manually go into each record, open each relevant attachment, right click to 'open as' Adobe PDF, execute a print command, manually close the adobe window, manually close the filemaker container window and repeat for each relevant attachment per record. The problem with using preview though is that when certain documents were created originally using acrobat such as forms or PDFs with embedded pics, Preview will fail to recognize the data on the forms or the embedded pics thereby rendering a blank page, making its necessary to use Acrobat only to print the documents. Further complicating the mater filemaker pro for mac has a frequent problem crashing on larger files when using Adobe as the default web plugin to view PDF files, thereby making it necessary to default to using 'preview' for mac as the default reader. It appears that filemaker is unable to print multipage PDF's that are stored in it's container fields. We are trying to automate some workflows but continue to run into gaping glitches that have stumped us and held back our productivity with this application. We use a filemaker PRO database that is rough around the edges but general works for our processes. We need a script that will print a multipage PDF within a printing sequence from filemaker pro.

Filemaker pro 11 printing problems