CMD 2010.2 adds two new important features and fixes several small issues.

New Features

•PDF Export now includes pictures. This enables you to export a pictorial directory to a PDF file which you can then distribute to church members. The picture quality in the export may be sufficient that you will no longer need a full-version copy of Acrobat to create a PDF that will be suitable as the basis for printing the pictorial directory.

To access the PDF export, you will need to first send your church directory to screen. Once the preview is on the screen, click the small floppy disk icon near the upper left corner of the preview dialog, or click File, Save As. In either case, a standard Windows Save dialog appears. Be sure the format shows PDF at the bottom of the dialog in the drop-down menu that says Save As Type to its left. If not, open the drop-down box and select PDF. You'll need to supply a file name and location as you would with any other document.

When finished, you can double-click on the resulting PDF file, and Acrobat Reader should open it for you.

•Visitation Assignment Page. Now when you open the Visitation dialog, the Print button is a drop-down menu of two choices - visitation history (the same form that's been available already), and the new Visitation Assignment page.

To use the assignment page, you need to first create a new visitation entry. You'll enter the date, the person assigned to make the visit, what kind of visit it is to be, and then you can use the comments field for the visit to state the purpose of the visit. If you wish, you can take advantage of the directions feature so that directions from the church to the home of the person to be visited by using the ~DIR~ marker in Family Comments.

Since this is an assignment for a future visit, this visit should stay on top of your visits list as the first entry. The assignment information used in the form is always taken from the very first, top-most entry.

Once you have entered the information for the visitation assignment, you can click the Print button and select the option to print the Visitation Assignment. If you wish to limit the visitation history that's printed, you can click on the visit that represents the last entry in the visitation history that you want to include in the assignment page. If you select the top-most or the bottom-most visit, all visits will be printed. If you select a visit that is somewhere in between, then CMD will include only those visits between the top-most visit down to and including the one you selected.

Fixes

•Church Info was not properly imported before.

•Number of pictures in Family Stats was incorrect.

•3-up labels were not working on the Interest File print page.

•Families marked as interests from the main Enter/Modify/Delete Names dialog may not show up when printing lists from within Interest File. The problem has been corrected, but there is an easy workaround for any families already moved to the Interest File. Simply call up the name on the Interest File dialog, and modify any item from the fields that are directly related to the interest file in the lower 2/3rds of the Interest File dialog.

•The RTF export has been removed (temporarily). It is not exporting correctly at present, so I just took it off as an option.