Update 4 Sep 2012: Preliminary testing indicates that the “line swallowing bug” alluded to below has been fixed in FileMaker 12.
There was a time, many years ago, when the maximum number of characters you could store in a FileMaker text field was 64,000. With the introduction of FileMaker 7 in 2004, that limit was expanded to approximately one billion characters (2 Gb of data divided by 2 bytes per Unicode character), i.e., more than you or I will typically ever need.
But while the capacity of a text field expanded astronomically, the maximum length of a layout remained unchanged at 110 inches (ten 8.5 x 11 inch pages), leading to a dichotomous situation where FileMaker can store vastly more data in a field than it can easily preview, print or output to PDF.
For example, let’s say you’ve decided to build a data warehouse for public domain literary works. Continue Reading →
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