Hello everyone, I'm posting this here in order to provide another solution to the terrible misinformation available on Macromedia's site about how to convert a landscape image to portrait for printing using the PrintJob class.
The code posted here at Macromedia's forums is VERY WRONG: http://tinyurl.com/e4cuf Real URL: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288&; threadid=1089277&enterthread=y It's so wrong, in fact, that it took me a fair bit of debugging to figure out just how wrong it was. Whoever wrote it obviously didn't test the code they posted as a solution. It's pseudocode and you don't post pseudocode as real code unless you're an asshat, which evollove is. If you're on this list, evollove, do us all a favor and don't post anymore solutions anywhere on the web. ;) Here is the correct, tested code for rotating a movieclip to print as landscape in portrait using PrintJob, for anyone who is looking for the solution. function printImage(mc) { var realW = mc._width; var realH = mc._height; var origX = mc._x; // pj = new PrintJob(); var pageCount = 0; if (pj.start()) { var orient = pj.orientation; if (orient.toLowerCase() != "landscape") { mc._rotation = 90; mc._x = mc._width; } var cWidth = mc._width; var cHeight = mc._height; var cXscale = (pj.pageWidth / cWidth) * 100; var cYscale = (pj.pageHeight / cHeight) * 100; mc._xscale = mc._yscale = Math.min(cXscale, cYscale); if (pj.addPage(mc, {xMin:0, xMax:realW, yMin:0, yMax:realH})) { pageCount++; } } if (pageCount > 0) { pj.send(); } mc._xscale = mc._yscale = 100; mc._rotation = 0; mc._x = origX; delete pj; } // Explanation Here are the places the original code was wrong and why, and how this proper code works. There are inconsistencies between the clip you're trying to print and they way PrintJob handles that clip, due mostly to PrintJob being a poorly written class, which doesn't surprise me. When you rotate a movieclip 90 degrees, Flash swaps its _width and _height, or rather, it returns the clip's current _width and _height, which when rotated 90 degrees, are swapped. If the clip was 1024x768 and you set its _rotation = 90, its _width will now return 768 and its _height 1024. This is important because you're going to use the rotated width and height to determine how much to scale the printClip down for PrintJob to print the entire clip on the page. When you're scaling an image you normally don't want to scale it out of proportion, so you need to determine which scale difference is greater (the lower of the 2 scales returned) and use that for both _xscale and _yscale equally. Evollove's script did not do this properly. PrintJob is retarded in that you need to scale the target clip down for it to print the entire clip image, but PrintJob still uses the clip's non-scaled and non-rotated width and height as its xMax and yMax values, not the _width and _height that Flash returns after rotation and scaling. Evollove obviously didn't test his code because he passed the adjusted values and didn't take the time to figure out that the PrintJob Class is stupid. This is important: PrintJob requires you to rotate and scale the clip down before you print it in order to fit the entire image on a page, but it still wants you to pass the clip's original width and height (not adjusted for rotation or scaling) for its print area. Not only is this dumb and inconsistent, it's not documented at all (nor are the properties like orientation, pageWidth, pageHeight, etc.). Par for the course. Once you send the print job, reset the _xscale, _yscale, _rotation, and _x of the clip(s) you were printing. HTH! _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
