Printing and screen display are just different beasts. I'm not sure what you mean by "shadowing", though it sounds like you want to set antiAliasType to the ADVANCED setting.
> > From: "scott_flex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/01 Tue PM 12:27:38 CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: FlexPrintJob not printing multiple formatted lines > successf > > > Thanks for the reply... however, why would fonts display correctly on > screen and size the text box correctly but not print the same way it > was rendered on screen? Must be luck of the draw on other fonts, > because they do not produce the same bahavior when printing. > > Embeding Verdana using > [Embed(systemFont='Verdana', fontName='Verdana', > mimeType='application/x-font')] > > Does fix the problem of the last line not printined correctly but > then anywhere else in my app this embeded font "shadows" the system > font and print outs are very poor quality and all other > labels/buttons using Verdana are very fuzzy... > > I'll keep digging into my font issues, there must be a correct way of > handling this. > > --Scott > > > --- In [email protected], John Mark Hawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In order for Flash to know how much room it needs to print an > autosized text field, the font must be embedded. There's no > way 'round it. The _height of an autosized text field without > embedded fonts will not be correct (for printing). > > > > > > > > > > From: "scott_flex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2007/05/01 Tue AM 08:19:08 CDT > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: FlexPrintJob not printing multiple > formatted lines successfully > > > > > > > > > Geneva, Tahoma and Verdana are 3 problematic fonts i have > isolated to > > > not print correctly. I never get the last line of text to print. > > > > > > These 3 fonts are installed on my pc. > > > > > > The height of my text area is not set, it grows with the amount > of > > > html text and this has worked very well. Always showing all text > on > > > screen but these 3 fonts never want to print the last line. > > > > > > However, for these 3 fonts if I set the height of my text control > to > > > 2 pixels larger that what it would normally grow to when the > height > > > is not set, everything prints out ok... but I can't set the > height of > > > my text controls because I don't know ahead of time how much text > > > they will contain. > > > > > > At this time i plan to remove these 3 fonts from my selection > list. > > > It's odd since these are pretty common fonts. > > > > > > Maybe i need to embed the fonts in the app itself, probably the > > > safest since other users may not have the same font list as I.... > but > > > that's why i was sticking with common fonts. > > > > > > Any other insight would be helpful.... > > > > > > --Scott > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "scott_flex" <skrause@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Well.... i have determined that it really doesn't matter what > font > > > > family or size it is.... it just won't print the last line even > > > > though all lines appear on screen with no scroll bars. > > > > > > > > The html text of my mx:text object is: > > > > <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" > > > > SIZE="12" COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">When i > try > > > to > > > > print this text from a mx:text control and the text wraps to > more > > > > than one line, the last line will not print. It just prints a > > > white > > > > blank line intstead. My mx:text component is set to 400 width > > > which > > > > is inside a grid item which inside a grid row which is inside > > > mx:gid > > > > object.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT> > > > > > > > > The width of my mx:text object is set to 400... and even though > the > > > > first few lines print they don't line break exactly as they do > on > > > > screen... just thought that was odd but probably has something > to > > > do > > > > with the scaling when it prints. I just want it to print the > last > > > > line. > > > > > > > > > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... i'm desperate for > ideas of > > > > what might be the issue. > > > > > > > > --Scott > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "scott_flex" <skrause@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a text control displayed with multiple lines of > wrapped > > > > text , > > > > > no scroll bars, all text is completely displayed on screen. > When > > > i > > > > > send this text to the printer only the first line is printed. > > > > > > > > > > The text control is displaying html formatted text. This > only > > > > happens > > > > > to certain font/size combinations. Verdana 11 prints first > line > > > > only, > > > > > second and 3rd lines don't print, even though they are on > screen > > > > ok. > > > > > Verdana 12 prints just fine, 2nd and following lines print ok. > > > > > > > > > > I've set the print object to NOT print as bitmap > > > > (printAsBitmap=false) > > > > > and the scale type for each object added to the print job is > set > > > to > > > > > show all. > > > > > > > > > > Haven't figured out why this happens for some font/size > > > > combonations... > > > > > any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > John Mark Hawley > > The Nilbog Group > > 773.968.4980 (cell) > > > > > > -- John Mark Hawley The Nilbog Group 773.968.4980 (cell) -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! 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