It seems that all my print-jobs are being rendered as graphics, even when they're only text. I can understand Flex/Flash choosing to render a page as graphics when it contains a bitmap (like a PDF417 bar-code bitmap, for example) but when it's just text, it should be sending the job as plain text, which would print far faster... (Clients are complaining about the delay between the time you click 'Print' and the time the first badge pops out of the printer. Geez... You'd think they'd be appreciative of the fact that it actually works with no pop-up dialogues. LOL)
Any ideas on how to get Flex/Flash to send a PrintJob as plain text instead of graphics? Or is this just something I'm gonna have to live with? Perhaps it's the way I'm constructing the print-job itself? I'm basically making a <mx:canvas> that's the size of the printer's printable area, and adding stuff like 'TextArea's and 'Label's to that canvas, then adding the canvas to the PrintJob using the addPage method... Don't really know of any other way to do it -- if y'all have any suggestions with regards to that too, I'm open to ideas. Oh, and I've tried setting the printMethod property of a PrintJobOptions object -- either PrintMethod.BITMAP or PrintMethod.VECTOR don't seem to make any difference in the speed. It's all graphics anyway, and these badge-printers are just slow processing graphics of any sort... I'd like to figure out how to make it send just plain text in the proper True-Type Font... Thanks, Laurence MacNeill Mableton, Georgia, USA
