Thnx Glen,
I forgot to mention this is AS2 (an old project). No Flex involved,
just Flash Player 8 (& above).
<background>
So, PrintJob offers the ability to spread out a large image over
several pages. This works fine.
The trickier part is a printout that requires a header MC and footer
MC with each page (this is for a building diagram). By header I mean
the header contains title, logo, and other stuff. The footer is a
legend with parts and specs.
Initially I tried to do this after PrintJob was fired, so I could know
the size of the printout, but the extra frame needed for the new MCs
to load caused the PrintJob to fail. As a workaround, prior to calling
PrintJob, I calculate and layout pages for the most common formats.
How do I make the pages? There's a couple of extra steps involved, but
this is the basic idea: I first add the header and footer to a new
page MC. Then I add in a portion of the diagram (via BitmapData) in
the middle of the page. This is done for as many pages as needed.
Then when I call PrintJob, I don't need to slice and dice... I just
print a stack of page MCs.
</background>
For testing, we're not actually printing out on paper, we're just
creating PDF print-previews.
So, regular slice and dice multi-page PDFs in PrintJob works fine.
Also, creating a single page PDF with header and footer works fine,
however a PD error message does pop up on PCs (but not on Macs).
For a stack of pages (with header): PDFs are fine on my Mac but fail
on PC, showing only a single blank page.
I'm not familiar with PDF printing on PCs. It's just built-in for OSX
so I assume that's the same for PC.
-radley
On May 1, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Glen Pike wrote:
Hi,
I have been doing some work with PrintJob in AS2 & Flex recently.
I managed to get it working okay for single pages in AS2 and 2
page spreads in AS3, not sure what you mean by a PDF error, but are
you sure it's not your "printer" driver. I have been using "CutePDF
Writer" which has been fine on the PC. For Mac, I think it was the
Acrobat printer, but not 100% as it was a friends computer.
Can you be more specific about the error - does it occur when
printing, or is it when you open the resulting PDF?
I have not done "header" & "footers" yet, but I guess this is just
a case of making up your MovieClip / Sprite to include these, so
should not have much of a bearing...
Glen
Radley Marx wrote:
Hey all,
I have a project containing a diagram that needs to be printed.
Often the diagram is too large for a single page, so it's sliced/
spread over multiple pages. Further, there's an option that the
page may include a header and footer.
The code was all developed and tested on a Mac and works great.
When we print on a PC, we get a PDF error. In most cases the print
will still work, but in one specific case (multi-page with header/
footer) it doesn't work at all on PC.
Curious if anyone has seen this issue before...
Thnx!
-radley
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