----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:57 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Print existing documents in Flex
> --- In [email protected], "Paul Andrews" <p...@...> wrote: >> >> PrintJob won't print external files. The only way to do it with Flex >> would >> be to read each file and add it's contents to a container to be rendered >> using Printjob. >> >> Unfortunately Flex isn't a printspooler! >> >> You might have some luck trying to navigate to the document url by >> popping >> up a new browser window, which may then display the document and would >> still >> require the user to use separate print dialogs. >> >> The only other solution is via networked printer support on the server. >> It's >> not going to be straightforward. > > You could create a page that treats each of the URL's as a service, then > stitches them all together. You might even be able to get away with not > removing the html, head, and body tags. Browsers can be amazingly > tolerant of that kind of junk. Interesting suggestion - might be a problem with pagination - you'd want each document to at least start on a new page. AFAIK it's not possible to force a page break in a HTML document. I originally interpreted the post as being URLS of non-html files, either way, the OP doesn't have an easy solution. > > -Amy
