RE: [flexcoders] Whats the best way of adding print/pdf output to a flex app?

[Iko Knyphausen]

Nice. I used to live in Old Town Alex. D.C. is fun – a little humid in summer time ;-)   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Trice Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:40 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com; flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Whats the best way of adding print/pdf output to a flex app?   I'm in the Washington, DC office.  It is a fun place to work... lots of cool projects from vc startups to major institutions.  If you or anyone else on this list has any interest, be sure to send your resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED]com.  We have several offices located around the country.  We just opened the new one in DC this week.   -Andy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com on behalf of Iko Knyphausen Sent: Tue 10/17/2006 11:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Whats the best way of adding print/pdf output to a flex app? Very good info, Andy. Thanks. I will study and digest (am also using PDF995 as a driver, so this would work). Out of curiosity, which Cynergy office do you work from? Seems like a kewl company to work for...   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Trice Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Whats the best way of adding print/pdf output to a flex app?   There is actually printing capability built natively into Flex.  It uses your OS printing capabilities.  If you have a pdf-print driver installed, you can print to pdf.   http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/mx/printing/FlexPrintJob.html   -Andy   http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com on behalf of Iko Knyphausen Sent: Tue 10/17/2006 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Whats the best way of adding print/pdf output to a flex app? By all means... I am thrilled there is so much contribution to this topic. One of my interests is to also print Charts that were created as a result from a data driven query. So a backend/server based data-driven solution alone will not help, I am afraid. Flash paper sounds promising... Since these are Adobe / MM related products, it would be kind of super-nice ;-) wink if there could be a native mx:control (like a print-page container).   Ideas? -Iko From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Anderson Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Whats the best way of adding print/pdf output to a flex app?   Continuing this thread -   Since FlashPaper is native to the whole "Macromedia and Adobe" suite of products, would FlashPaper be just as good of a solution as a PDF?   And with that said, if FlashPaper is an acceptable solution for some users, could a FlashPaper document be created directly within a Flex Application?   This would give a user, a ton of power, if they wanted to create documents for distribution, or for hard copy / archival purposes.   I'd love to hear more regarding this topic, and I hope you don't mind me chiming in on your original thread Iko - I am sure any further information will benefit both of us :)   Thanks,   Mike   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nick Collins Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Whats the best way of adding print/pdf output to a flex app? I would say your best bet is likely to store your data into a database (which you're likely already doing) then use a backend PDF writer or report generation script in whatever backend language you're using. Coldfusion has this built in I know, and I know there are components available for .Net that allow quite a bit of flexibility. On 10/17/06, iko_knyphausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]net> wrote: Assume you were producing reports with columns, summaries, charts, that sort of thing, is there a good way of getting this to a printer or pdf file? Any components out there that will help dimensions, page breaks, etc. Thanks Iko __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___