What's new in version 2.0.2 ?

More information is available on the PrinterSwitch product page.

More product info on the eID & SIS product page
A free demo version is available from our downloads page.
The product is available for purchase starting today. Upgrades for users of 1.x are free of charge.

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 ?

1° First of all, download our example file and make sure the plug-in is installed. PrinterSwitch is available for download here.

2° Open the example file

The first thing you need to do is "Define printer settings". Once you have "captured" these, you will be able to "restore" them at the time of printing.

3° Select a printer from the pop-up menu, then click the "Define Settings" button. This will run the "Add new printer settings" script. The screenshots below will guide you through the process.

4° Enter a name, preferably with a description of what's specific about that setup.

On Windows, the next step in the script is Print Setup [].
Because of the nature of how print settings can be selected on the Mac (certain parts in the "Page Setup" and others in the "Print" dialogs), we created a specific PrinterSwitch function to mimic the Windows [Print Setup] script step on the Mac: PrSw_PrintDialog ("macdialog").

When calling this function, you will get two 'dummy' dialogs - first the "Page Setup" dialog, then the "Print" dialog.

5° Make all necessary selections in both dialogs, such as paper size, orientation, scaling, duplex, n-up printing, paper feed etc.

6° Once you have finished making your selections, click "Print".
The function will return "0" if the user first clicks "OK", and then clicks "Print". Otherwise, if the user cancels either the page setup or print dialog, it will return "-1".

IMPORTANT NOTE: Clicking "Print" will NOT send a print job to the printer. It allows you, however, to go and capture all these settings using the function PrSw_PrintSetup("capture"). When you call this function, a long string will be stored in a printer settings field.

You can repeat this process for other printers or printer settings you want to capture.

7° In order to print with a particular setting you stored previously, use the function
PrSw_PrintSetup("restore|" & [printersettingsstring] )
followed by a normal
Print [No Dialog]
script step…

IMPORTANT NOTE: on Windows, instead of the one Print [No Dialog] script step, you need to use the three following steps:

SetVariable [$printersettings; Value:PrSw_PrintDialog( "disable" )
Print []
SetVariable [$printersettings; Value:PrSw_PrintDialog( "enable" )

The PrinterSwitch download also contains an example file that demonstrates how you could implement printer settings on a "per user"or "per computer" basis.

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

What's new in 2.0 ?

Changed installer so the plug-in is automatically installed in the FMS AutoUpdate location

Check the purchase page for upgrade pricing information.

Customers who purchased PrinterSwitch 1.7 after January 1st, 2010 are entitled to a free upgrade to version 2.0.

]]> http://blog.myfmbutler.com/?feed=rss2&p=610 0 http://blog.myfmbutler.com/?p=602 http://blog.myfmbutler.com/?p=602#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:07:19 +0000 info http://blog.myfmbutler.com/?p=602 Now that FileMaker 11 has been released, we wanted to give everyone an update on the compatibility status of our products with this new release.

Here's an overview:

AutoSender
The current version of AutoSender, i.e. 2.5.5, is not fully compatible with FileMaker Server 11. It will work fine for XML connections to the data source, but not for JDBC connections.
AutoSender 3.0, which will fix this issue and in addition add some new features, is due out in the April-May timeframe.

Clip Manager
Most Clip Manager 3 features will work fine, but there are a number of smaller issues.

The next major upgrade to Clip Manager will add support for converting the older XMCF custom function format to the new XMFN format.

DoScript
DoScript 2.0.1 should work fine with FM11. In the next couple of months, we'll still release a new version, however, that will be compiled using FileMaker's new API for FM11.

DoSQL
As with DoScript, DoSQL 1.2 should work fine with FM11. In the next couple of months, we'll still release a new version, however, that will be compiled using FileMaker's new API for FM11.

PrinterSwitch
New PrinterSwitch 2.0 will be released in the next couple of weeks. It will feature full compatibility with FileMaker Pro 11, and will also add some new features.

If you encounter any other issues with one of our products in combination with FileMaker 11, please let us know via our support page.

Check out the movie below or go to YouTube if you want to see it in HD.

Go to the Clip Manager product page

It fixes an issue where Clip Manager would not always open the correct text editor on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Download it here or select "Check for Updates" from the Clip Manager 3 menu.

Many people are already using a backup and file sharing service like Dropbox or Sugarsync.

The way this works is the following: you install Dropbox or Sugarsync on all clients where you want to access to your shared data. These clients can be Mac OS X or Windows, Linux (Dropbox only), iPhone or Android (Sugarsync only). Dropbox has a folder (by default called 'Dropbox') that is automatically synchronized across all devices. For SugarSync, this folder is callled 'Magic Briefcase'.

This is also an ideal way to share Clip Manager clips.

Just create a clips folder in your 'Dropbox' folder or your 'Magic Briefcase' and point to that folder from your Clip Manager Preferences (see image above). That's it! All your changes will now automatically propagate to all computers you have defined in your setup.

Both services also allow access via a web browser, as shown below. From the browser interface you can also get access to older versions of the same file, share a particular file or folder with someone who is not a Dropbox or Sugarsync user etc.

Here's an overview of the changes:

Windows version

Bugfixes

New

Mac OS X version

Bugfixes

New

If you have automatic update checking turned on, you can start the automatic update from within Clip Manager. Otherwise, you can download the new version from our downloads page.