Basically you are printing what is "drawn" on the screen by way of Flash Player. No way I know of to send the plain text in a print job in Flex. What you might be able to pull off is using a External Interface call and pushing the plain text to JavaScript then out to the printer.
Douglas Knudsen [email protected] On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Laurence MacNeill wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
