We just released a maintenance update for our PrinterSwitch plug-in.

What's new in version 2.0.2 ?

More information is available on the PrinterSwitch product page.

PrinterSwitch "Capture & Restore", or the ability to store and later retrieve printer settings like page orientation, paper size and paper source, has been available on Windows since version 1.5.

The recently released PrinterSwitch 2.0 now offers these options on Mac OS X as well. In this article, we'll focus on how you can implement this.

How does it work ?

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We just released PrinterSwitch 2.0.1. This is mainly a bug fix update.

What's new ?

• Solves an issue where the "Print Setup" script step was not working properly
• Fixed bug with FileMaker 11 record selection dialog - when using capture and restore, you can now determine whether to print the "Current record" or "all "Records being browsed"" by using "Specify print options" in the "Print" script step. When using a restore, PrinterSwitch will only use the FileMaker record selection data defined in the "Specify print options" - all other (FileMaker 11) printer information will be ignored
• [Mac OS X] Fixed bug with manual printing and "Save as PDF". You can now create PDFs manually, even when PrinterSwitch has selected a printer. You can now even capture and restore "Save as PDF…", although the PDF name is not variable.
• [Windows] Solved privilege related issues on Windows 7, Vista and Server 2008.
• [Windows] Should no longer require changes to DEP settings

We just released PrinterSwitch 2.0, a major upgrade to our plug-in for managing printers in your FileMaker solutions.

What's new in 2.0 ?

Lately we have been getting regular reports from people experiencing a problem when trying to use PrinterSwitch on systems with Windows Server 2003/2008 or Windows Vista (and 7).

After running the installer, and starting FileMaker, the PrinterSwitch plug-in is not automatically enabled. Manually trying to enable it generates an error message "myFMbutler PrinterSwitch could not be enabled".

This problem is caused by certain security settings of the above versions of Windows, by a feature that's called "Data Execution Prevention".

To correct the settings, do the following:
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We wanted to give everyone an update on the compatibility status of our products with FileMaker 10:

Initial testing of our plug-ins (DoSQL, DoScript, PrinterSwitch), have not shown any compatibility issues with the FileMaker 10 platform.

AutoSender 2.5 also seems to work fine with FileMaker Server 10, although we'll be providing a small update that will integrate a new JDBC driver by February.

Clip Manager 3 does have some issues for people trying to 'Get' or 'Set' a custom function with FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced. We will be releasing version 3.1 later this month. This version will also provide a number of other fixes.

We also recently found issues (unrelated to FM10) when using the 'Copy to Clip Manager' function on Brian Dunning's CF web site. Starting with a certain build of Flash 9 and all builds of Flash 10, the copying no longer works. We are currently working on a fix and hope to provide it by next week (actually, we already fixed it today).

We just released a maintenance update for our PrinterSwitch plug-in.

Version 1.7.2 fixes a Windows-only issue: it was reported that on some rare Windows XP installations the plug-in could cause a crash at FileMaker startup. The issue has been fixed in this release.

We just released version 1.7.1 of our PrinterSwitch plug-in.
PrinterSwitch is a FileMaker Pro 9 (and 7/8/8.5) plug-in for Windows and Macintosh that allows you to easily control printer switching from within your FileMaker solutions.
This new version fixes the PrSw print-to-PDF functionality on MacOS X Leopard.

If you want to use PrinterSwitch in a multi-user environment, you may want to store printer information on a per user basis.



We're pleased to provide 2 examples of how to implement this in a solution.

1. The first lets you assign a specific printer per user for a number of predefined printer setups (e.g. laser printer, a label printer etc)
2. The second example is Windows-only and uses the Capture & Restore functions on Windows to capture complete setups along with yor printer selection

Any feedback is obviously appreciated.

Download the examples here.