John, I ended up going a different route.. i'll use this technique in the future. It was a great expirement. The print quality just wasn't good enough.
Anyway, I wrote a recursive routine to find all Text controls, then manually reset their heights for printing. For reasons, unknown to me, when you add a couple pixels to the height of Text object, then print, ALL lines print. Each time i found a Text control in my DisplayObject being added to the printJob, i determined line count (oddly, no built in lineCount property), went through each line and got the lineMetrics and calculated a new height, plus added a few pixels to be sure. I did all this between calling my printJob.start() and printJob.send(). Oh, setting my printJob.printAsBitmap to false is also very good for quality and they suggest that in the docs if not printing images or non-vector stuff... the print quality is crystal clear! I agree this is a hack... but when there's LITTLE documentation and it doesn't work as expected i was under the gun to get something out since i released my app... before testing all printing scenarios... --Scott Turning off printAsBitmap on the print job seems to condense the text a little so if you only have one word on the last line, it's possible that it's brought up to the previous line. This may cause an extra blank space when printed, minor issue, but all text prints, the most important thing. I went through several different fonts and sizes and now very rairly, a letter gets clipped on the right, i'll figure this out later. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 <jrobinso@> 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? > > > > > > > > >> . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Messages in this topic (0)Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic > > Messages > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders% > > 40yahoogroups.com > > > > Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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