Hi Jason
I didn't take any tone from your post - I try to read them as words and not
infer things. If you had said "that sucks!", I would have taken it badly ;-)
From what I've gathered from users who have contacted me to tell me how they
use it, there seems to be a lot of "fill out this form and we'll assemble a
PDF of your choices"-type apps. I've seen some impressive full-color
catalogs for big companies created that way. But in these cases, each page
is programmatically typeset.
Here's some code that would illustrate how text is added:
mypage = myPDF.setDrawingPage(1);
mypage.setNumberFormat("inches");
mypage.drawString(1,1,"myFont1",24,0xff0000,"This is red, 24point text at 1
inch over and 1 inch down from the top left");
You can kind-of setup templates by using a Flash movie that is the size of
your document (in inches) x 72 (for dpi), and then lay out text areas and
take their locations and use those in your drawString() methods being sure
to set the drawing mode to "pixels" or "points".
I hope that helps. I don't want to do too much support or up-front info on
Flashcoders, but I figured I'd follow-up this one since others may want to
know. I'd prefer to do support and other questions off-list. :-)
g.
On 10/20/06, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I realized after I sent that my tone didn't appear to good - it looks
like a great product Greg - just trying to figure out how I can use it
for a project. How do most people handle text with it?
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason
>>Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:41 AM
>>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format
>>
>>So to get text into the PDF you would need to re-draw it somehow?
Hmmm,
>>might be a showstopper for me, but thanks anyway.
>>
>>Jason Merrill
>>Bank of America
>>Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of g.wygonik
>>>>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:11 PM
>>>>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>>>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format
>>>>
>>>>Hey Jason (and all)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Do you know how many PDF pages it can generate (is there a max)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>There is no programmatic limit to the number of pages. While I have
>>had
>>>>users create 20-40 page documents, I haven't had anyone try, say,
>>9,000
>>>>pages. :-)
>>>>
>>>>Will it render out dynamic textfields in the positions they are in?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>No. Not exactly. Basically all text is created in the document by
>>using a
>>>>drawString() method. So, you would need to re-draw things into the
>>PDF. Or,
>>>>you could use the component as your main display and only do it
once.
>>But
>>>>it's not "take this textfield and pop it into the PDF".
>>>>
>>>>What about HTML text?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Nope.
>>>>
>>>>Can you generate a hardcopy PDF Document or does it just sent the
PDF
>>>>> data to a browser window?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It generates a full PDF document into a variable in Flash. So it's
>>left up
>>>>to the developer to either save it to the server, push it to the
>>client via
>>>>the server, or save it locally via Zinc or other projector.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>No problem. Hope that helps. :-)
>>>>
>>>>g.
>>>>
>>>>
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