[flexcoders] Re: Html Text does NOT print in same format as rendered on scre

2007-05-05 Thread scott_flex
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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Html Text does NOT print in same format as rendered on scre

2007-05-04 Thread John Robinson
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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Html Text does NOT print in same format as rendered on scre

2007-05-03 Thread John Robinson
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

[flexcoders] Re: Html Text does NOT print in same format as rendered on scre

2007-05-03 Thread scott_flex
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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Html Text does NOT print in same format as rendered on scre

2007-05-02 Thread John Mark Hawley
Can you make the display object into a bitmap and then print that instead? From: scott_flex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/05/02 Wed AM 08:55:20 CDT To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Html Text does NOT print in same format as rendered on screen.. Here's a small

[flexcoders] Re: Html Text does NOT print in same format as rendered on scre

2007-05-02 Thread scott_flex
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