Gary, Here is part of my script that I thought would solve the problem, from my post last month: ------------ tell app "finder" set myphoto to choose file --the PDF file to import set myphoto to myphoto as string --must be done. end tell tell app "filemaker pro" activate tell database "mydatabase.fp5" --database file name; open in this example set cell "Page Box 1" to file (myphoto) --Page box 1 is a local name end tell end tell ------------- Obviously, my final script would have automation; this example was just to choose one PDF file to test if it would work. When I later automated it to insert an entire folder of low-res PDF files into a master FM6 document, it did insert the files into the document. HOWEVER...it did not retain the PDF files in the FM document when I saved a copy of it; using an AS string to insert the PDF file only puts in a link to the actual file, so the file folder has to be always present. I needed a self-contained FM file with PDFs embedded to send to other people. Manually inserting the PDF files into the document works. But this cannot be applescripted using a file name variable. The actual file name has to be in the insert picture Scriptmaker script. Chuck has found a solution to this problem that FM simply does not have in its AS library. Bob R.