SVG’s for FileMaker Eric Sterbenk of The Support Group posts on a great source for SVG icons and a way to easily modify the icons to make them FileMaker compatible: Who else but Google has created a style guide for all of their applications and shared it on the interwebs for everyone to use. Material Design is basically […]
Free SVG Icon Pack – Check it out! FileMaker Examples has a free download of a FileMaker database with, at last count, 89 SVG icons, all fully FileMaker compatible. Which means FileMaker users are easily able to change the fill color as desired: This SVG Icon Pack is not just any collection of SVG icons. These […]
FileMaker Heat Map Emory Brown of DB Services builds a FileMaker Heat Map using SVG Icons and conditional formatting: Creating A Heat Map FileMaker not only has the ability to import SVG icons, it also gives the ability to change their color with conditional formatting. This is key to using them for data visualization. All we need to get […]
Want to know more about SVG Glyphs and FileMaker? Bob Shockey of Alchemy Group wrote a great blog post about SVG Glyphs last summer, and it’s something every FileMaker developer should read: SVG is a compact vector description that uses XML at its core to describe the image. Unlike a bitmap, which uses a pixel-by-pixel description […]
You have to sign up for Creative Nerds newsletter, but you’ll get some pretty good looking free design stuff, including icons: We have put together a free design bundle. The bundle includes hundreds of free icons, realistic high quality Photoshop brushes, and seamless vector patterns. All the resources used across Creative Nerds website are all free to use […]
Emory Brown of DBServices digs into the XML behind the new (in FileMaker 14) SVG format for button icons: FileMaker 14 ushered in a new era of vector graphics with the advent of button icons. FileMaker comes pre-loaded with 140 very useful glyphs; additionally you can expand your collection with any number of custom glyphs and […]
This is the Free SVG Gallery tool Claus Lavendt talks about in his video interview with FileMakerProGurus at Devcon 2015. If you are importing SVG icons into FileMaker, this is a must have tool: Now you get an even smarter way of managing your SVG icons, and a very smart and easy way to get a collection […]
Here’s what you will learn about Claus Lavendt in this video: Learn about his business, Data Manix Learn about his DevCon 2015 presentation on improvements in FileMaker 14. Learn about his prove of concept: Speak to FM Go and have it do things for you (demo file coming later this month) He just finished up […]
Check out this free SVG Icon FileMaker Database from Indats: I’ve always been a big fan of Syncfusion’s Metro Studio tool which has an excellent selection of royalty free icons, but they didn’t export to SVG very well for Filemakers purposes, so I created a little database that lets you search and find icons like […]
Learn about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), their pluses and minuses, how to make them, and how to edit them. As well as some Script Workspace tips, and mixing and matching FileMaker 14 and 13. Thu, 4 June 2015 348_FM_Success_Tips Script Workspace Tips, SVG Files for icons, Backwards compatibility Direct download: 348_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: […]
One of the neat new features of FileMaker 14 is the the new button bar tool. The tool not only make it easy to make tool bars, but it makes use of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) icons within the toolbar buttons. What does that mean to you and your clients? SVG icons are resolution independent, […]
Tim Cimbura: See also http://cimbura.com/tech/2015/07/13/svg-custom-icons-and-filemaker-14/
Don Clark: I'll add it to the post. Thanks, Tim!