At 10:49 AM +1000 9/1/07, Tim Mansour wrote: >On 31/08/2007, at 11:58 pm, Neil Ticktin wrote: > >> They are the same for each "location" >> >>> ... can you "pre-save" a PDF when the flier >>> changes rather than re-generating them every output? >> >> The generation is not the problem -- it's just that FileMaker won't >> let me >> print the quantities that I want. > >Yep, understood Neil. But my suggestion was that you could generate a >PDF flyer once (for each location) and store it somewhere, then use >an AppleScript to print copies of it when required (ie, the >AppleScript being run from a script within FileMaker).
Yep ... the problem is that the quantities change from month to month ... and the bottleneck is not producing the print job, it is the print job going over the Internet to the office. In the end, the band aid of using AppleScript to control FileMaker from outside of FileMaker and through the GUI is the solution. Funny part is, the AppleScript executed from within a FileMaker ScriptMaker script doesn't work. Thanks! Neil
