Scott -
I didn't notice the loss of quality when I tested it (quickly)
yesterday, but I'm noticing it now that you mentioned it.
I played with it a bit more but the only thing I found that helped at
all (though still not great) was to set "smoothing = true" for the
Bitmap. It looks better but is now a little fuzzy and on paper (cheap
inkjet) the text is not as dark as the one without smoothing. I'm
wondering if it's possible to overlay the no-smoothing bitmap with a
transparent background over the smoothed version?
John
On May 3, 2007, at 10:55 PM, scott_flex wrote:
Thanks for the example John! However, when you printed your output
to PDF did you lose a lot of text quality? Printing the image/bitmap
i lose a lot of quality on the printout, font is real jagged.
The bitmap image created from my source panel is very clear on. I
assume this is because the flash player is not printing it
intellegently as a font but rather an image.
Even so though... the bitmap image is pretty darn close to the real
dimensions of the printed page, based on 72pixel per inch.. Would
think i would lose that much qualtily.
--Scott
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Scott -
>
> I thought the same thing (use Bitmap/BitmapData). Quick example:
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> creationComplete="init()" >
>
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
>
> import flash.display.*;
> import flash.printing.*;
> import flash.events.*;
>
> public function init():void {
> var i:Number = 100;
> while(i>0) {
> my_text.htmlText += "<br>Bob is cool
as hell. I love bob. <font
> face=\"Cochin\" color=\"#333333\"><b>yay!</b></font>bob! bob!";
> i--;
> }
> }
>
> public function onClick():void {
>
> var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData
(my_panel.width,
> my_panel.height, false);
> var b:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bd);
> my_image.source = b;
> bd.draw(my_text);
>
> var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
> pj.start();
> pj.addPage(my_text as Sprite);// page 1,
original text
> pj.addPage(my_image as Sprite);// page 2,
bitmap
> pj.send();
> }
>
>
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
>
> <mx:Panel id="my_panel" title="My Panel" width="100%"
height="100%"
> autoLayout="true" click="onClick()">
> <mx:TextArea id="my_text" width="500" height="400"/>
> </mx:Panel>
> <mx:Image id="my_image" width="{my_panel.width}"
> height="{my_panel.height}"/>
>
> </mx:Application>
>
> I didn't try going to a printer but just saved as a pdf. Page 2
looks
> just like it's displayed in the browser, while page 1 looks like
the
> text has been shrunken horizontally a tad. Strange, but using
bitmap
> should solve your issues for now.
>
> Note... I tried adding the Bitmap object and the BitmapData object
to
> the printJob but it gave me errors so I'm not sure if the image is
> necessary or not.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On May 2, 2007, at 11:24 AM, scott_flex wrote:
>
> > I thought about that. I don't know how to make it a bitmap yet but
> > from what i've seen i should be able to fairly easily...and I
assume
> > i can send a bitmap image to the printer.
> >
> > In my real app i'm taking a few panels and adding them to a vbox
> > control so I can create "pages" to send to the printer. I
calculate
> > the height and when the combined height of my panels with text are
> > taller than a page 700ish pixels high, i create another page...
this
> > also allows me to have a nice print preview screen so they see
> > exactly how it will print...
> >
> > --Scott
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John Mark Hawley <mark@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you make the display object into a bitmap and then print
that
> > instead?
> > >
> >> .
> >
> >
>
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