I was wondering if someone could let me know what the concensus on
printing PDFs through the Web Viewer is.

I'm doing a database that stores a bunch of datasheets on products
that my company designs and fabricates. We use Adobe's Illustrator to
create detailed drawings and I'm intending to have them saved as PDFs
so we can reference them in our datasheets through the Web Viewer.

On screen, through a web portal, the drawings show up and scale
perfectly, as planned; however, whenever I try to print the
datasheets, the PDFs don't show up at all, and all I get is an empty
rectangle.

Regular HTML displays and prints fine, but not PDFs. Anyone have any
suggestions?

Thanks!


Kane.

Can anyone even print PDFs through a web viewer on their layout? Just
want to know.

Thanks.

On Mar 13, 4:30 pm, satisfymycurios... (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Can anyone even print PDFs through a web viewer on their layout? Just
want to know.

Thanks.

On Mar 13, 4:30 pm, satisfymycurios... (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Awesome! Thanks!

Not what I wanted to hear, but at least I know to stop pulling my hair
out. FM Presales wasn't helpful at all as they told me that this was a
feature, but would not tell me how or what were the requirements. They
tried to point me to tech support, which won't even grant me an
audience unless I bought a license -- hence my conundrum.

Bizarre though, since I can view and print HTML and Flash, etc. Gah.
Go figure.

Thanks again!

On Mar 15, 11:15 am, Howard Schlossberg
<how... (AT) antispahm (DOT) fmprosolutions.com> wrote:

Correct. PDF documents cannot be printed from Web Viewer -- at least
not in Windows. You can print if you 'insert as object' into a
container field and print the layout with the container field -- but
only the first page of the document. This probably has as much to do
with IE (on Windows) and Safari (on Mac) as it has to do with FileMaker.
I would suggest you make it a feature request, at
http://filemaker.com/company/feature_request.html

satisfymycuriosity (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
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satisfymycuriosity (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
How about if one has a a link to to let folks know where they can get a
free pdf viewer on the website? That way they can print pdf if they want
that way.
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