Hi Paul, FlexReport is not on the right track, as well as Adobe's approach to printing. Problem starts right here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=printing_5.html Person who wrote this manual didn't know the fact that Flash Player has a 2-pass renderer and this a key mistake.
And so far there are heaps of bugs in PrintDataGrid and they are not moving anywhere. Seems like printing for Adobe is a lowest priority thing (tell it to anyone from a pre-press industry :) and there are not so many people who care that the print-outs have cut in half rows, missing text in rows and on top of it wasted space. So, don't expect any great results from FlexReport in the nearest future. Unfortunately. Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "aceoohay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to do Mail Merge from a flex application. > > Creating the database piece is easy. I have also been able to create > the merge with htmlText from a RichTextEditor component. > > The problem of course is printing. I tried flexReport, and everything > is ducky except that I can't find anyway to force pagebreaks > programmatically within flexReport. If I understood the component > pieces that do the HTML rendering within flexReport I would try to > force it to honor the <p style="pageBreakAfter:always"> tag. I posted > to the flexReport Google Code bug list over a week ago with no response > as of yet. > > At any rate I still need to do MailMerge. I am not opposed to most any > solution. If there is a component that would convert flex created HTML > to RTF, or a MS DOC file, that would be OK as well. > > I tried taking the HTML generated by the flex RichTextEditor, and > importing it into MS Word, and the fonts are massive, and changing the > font within the RichTextEditor component had no affect on what MS Word > produced. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Paul >
