Flash :: Print Quality Much Inferior On Mac Than Windows

Flash Printing Quality Is Inferior
Please take a look at this:
http://sichtwerk.ch/flashbugs/printing/printing1.png

The left portion shows the swf, zoomed in onto the "3". Font size is 14pt.
The right portion shows the same swf printed via Adobe PDF 8 printer.

Is there any reason why flash creates such miserable output?
Is there any way to get better output out of an swf?

Print Quality
In a flash movie even with the export settings for JPGs set to 100%, the printed image quality reflects the 72dpi screen resolution ie. anything curved gets "goofed up!" Is there any way of overcoming this with a bitmap image?

PRINT QUALITY
In a flash movie, even with the export settings for JPGs set to 100%, the printed image quality reflects the 72dpi screen resolution ie. anything curved gets "goofed up!" Is there any way of overcoming this?

Print Quality In IE6
Why is printing out from browser (IE6) so lossy - its not vectors anymore.
I have tryed all the printersettings.
The page I want to print is at standard html page with both text and flashmovies.

Print Quality ?
does any one know how I can
get a print quality image from
and action scripted swf ??

I've got a swf that make some nice
paterns that I would like to print
but all I've been able to do is print
screen and the rez is poor.

thanks

mac : )

Print() Quality
I'm using print() to print a business card template, and the fonts -- which are vector and embedded -- are printing as fuzzy bitmapped images. In fact, there's no difference between print() and printAsBitmap().

Any idea how to get higher quality printing?

I'm using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 with OSX 10.4.

Edited: 07/06/2007 at 07:44:59 AM by jcipriani223323

Print Quality Problem
hello
i have a MC contain vector illustration and few filters such as blur and shadow,
and i want to scale this MC to fit to Page(A4) and then print it.
i use bitmapdata and Draw scaled MC to it then print this by printjob.
i set {printasbitmap:true} when addpage to printjob.

but printed page have a low quality, anybody know how can i print in best quality. or set the print DPI or ... /

Very Thanks.

Print Function - Way To Quality?
I realized that the output of the printAsBitmap function generates a very low quality image (to be printed). You can actually see the compression. It is visible if you print to PDF or to flashpaper for example. Is there a way to make a higher resolution or better quality print (other than using the print function)?

Thanks!

High Quality Print From Flash
I know that flash has a print option but have very little experience in this area.

Does anyone know how to create high resolution printable flash files?

Thanks

How To Print Text And Images With Quality?
To print images the PrintJob class must be set to "printasBitmap".
If the page has text and images in the same way PrintJob needs "printasBitmap" to print the images.
But this setting become text jagged, low resolution, bad quality.
I ask: Flash CS4 solve this problema?

Exporting A Print Quality File From A MovieClip
Hello,
I had posted a little bit ago trying to find the name of a plug-in, that was successful but I do not think it is what I need exactly.

I am trying to export a movieclip to a print quality image of some sort, the file type can be almost anything but it needs to be vector or about 600dpi for my clients use.

Does anyone have any suggestions/idea/dreams?
Thank you greatly!

Place Inferior-level Objects On Top
Ive got one index-file on _level0, from which I load another file into _level1, on top of _level0 covering it completely.

I would like a single (not all) object on _level0 to show on top. Is that possible?

Layers would only work, if Im not misstaken, on a single level, so I guess thats out.

Image Quality Lost, Exported At 100% JPEG Quality
I am working on a Flash website for a design group to display their work. These designs needed to be scaled down to fit the format of the website and many of these designs have body copy with small text. In the FLA file they look ok, but when I export the SWF, the text looks really bad.I know JPEG compression isn't very good for text but even when I export at 100% JPEG quality it still ends up looking different. The text looks very "sparkly" with the thins of the letters have been lost. The original assets that they gave me were all in one photoshop file at 150dpi with one design per layer and some of the text were just slightly pixelated if you zoom in (all text were rasterized and flattened into the designs). Some of the same images supposedly from that file had been used on their previous site with no problem. On some of the images in the PSD I can see that some of the thin strokes in the letters had been lost a little from scaling the designs down. This has been really frustrating and I can't think of how to rememdy this problem. Anyone have any suggestions?

-Sorry I did not realize that someone had already asked the smae type of question. I am trying the suggestions from the other thread.

<param Name=quality Value=low> Plays High Quality Flash
I want to adjust some flash content on my site depending on user rights.
The systems shows a slide show with swf/images, if the user is logged in he will also see a list of thumbnails with all flashes that is going to appear in the sideshow. This list is contained within XHTML markup and has nothing to do with the slide show other than containing the individual slides.

It would be nice if I could set the quality for the swf's in the thumbnails to low since 10-20 high res flashes tend to use a lot of CPU. Using <param name=quality value=low /> to achieve this has so fare granted no success.

Things I've tried so far are:

1. Setting <param name="quality" value="low" /> for the individual flashes in the thumbnail list. The flashes are still displayed in high res. Tried using " ' and no hyphens.
2. Sending the flash var _quality=low through the src of the thumbnail list elements. <param name="movie" value="/src/flash/movie.swf?_quality=low" /> with and without hyphens.
3. Googling quality settings for flash which all say to use <param name="quality" value="low" />

Things to point out:
1. I have no control over the swf. These come from all sort of people so I need to be able to adjust the quality via the web page.
2. I've tried different ways of writing the quality strings. value='low' value="low" value=low and so on.
3. The quality settings change if i right click and select quality -> low but they always start at high.
4. The source code writes what I expect it to, the flash simply ignores the values I send it.
5. I'm using a windows based machine with Fire Fox 2 and CS2, the site uses XHTML and my flash player is 9,0,124,0

Edited: 08/28/2008 at 07:55:30 AM by Cbastus

Print Action Doesn't Print Content In The Centre Of Paper.
I am wondering if there is any option to control how the content of the frame can be printed from Flash projector of a loaded movie clip.
The "Print" button resides in the loaded movie clip. Here is the code:

on (release) {
print("_parent.quiz", "bmovie");
gotoAndPlay("#p");
}

Shouldn't be any problem. When I print this frame from the loaded movie itself it is printed well. It printed all content exactly in a centre of the page. However, when I try to print this frame of the loaded movie from the main movie it moves all content to the right bottom side of the paper.
Any advice is highly appreciated.
Thanks!

PrintJob:: Is It Possible To Select Page No.to Print Directly From Print Dialog Box ?
I'm using PrintJob object to print multiple pages .
When the print dialog ( on pc) opens, under Page Range, the Current Page and Pages radio buttons are greyed out.
Is there a way to enable them so that users can specify what page to print directly from this print dialog box?

Any suggestion is appreciated,
Thanks!

I Want To Print A Picture Using Print() ; , Trouble With The Backgrund Color
using the print(); action script , the picture prints OK but the background color ends up wasting ink for the user's printer.

print("_root.instance" , "bframe") ;

1. I need that print out to be, over a white background.
Without actually changing the background color to white.

Thanks in advance

samy

Print Directly To Printer (bypass Print Dialog Box)
Does anyone know of a way to bypass the print dialog box when issuing the print command in flash? I am trying to write a flash application and it is nessesary to avoid printing multiple copies (dialog boxs gives the option of how many copies). Thanks!

I am working with flash 6.0 fyi.

How To Print From Flash Wihtout Print Dialog Box From Poppin
Is there a way in flash 8 to print from a flash button in where the print dialog box does not pop up? Im developing a kiosk app and I need th user to print the screen without having to select the printer. I also dont want the app sitting in a browser in order for it to auto print.

Any help would be great
thanks

Low Quality Movie With High Quality Files?
hello again...well in the meantime the only way i managed to keep my pixel fonts crisp is by putting the movie quality to low ...however...i have some graphics in it that really won't show with low quality. is there any way i can have the movie at low quality yet be able to show certain graphics in high quality? perhaps by importing them in a certain format, or can i apply a property to them or someting??? or is it all or nothing?

i would appreciate any suggestion!

TY!

Print Actionscript Vs Context Menu Print
I can't for the life of me figure out this oxymoron:

If I include a Print button in my flash movie, I can't seem to find a way in actionscript to print the current frame.

But, in the Flashplayer, if you right click and select Print, you can pick Selection, and it does prints the current frame.

(I need this selectivity, because I have a line of sofas being displayed between keyframes, and I don't want to print out all the sofas in the movies, just the one the user paused the player on)

If anyone has ideas about how to print the CURRENT frame, I'd love to hear it...

Using Print Function, Selecting Which Frame To Print?
I have an elearning tutorial movie built using flash, and each frame is navigated to with forward and back buttons. I want the ability to print certain frames, without having to convert what i want to print to separate movie clips or separpate levels and then targeting them. Is there anyway?

Thanks

Print Doesn't Print Variables, But Displays It ?
Q1. Dynamic values are passed to a print frame (say frame 10 of the main timeline). A movieclip in the

frame 10 contains 2 frames.
Q2. The dynamic values are passed correctly into frame 1 of the movieclip, but not frame 2 of the same

movieclip in the print movieclip timeline.
Also, when I move from frame 1 to 2 and back to frame 1,

the values in frame 1 are also not displayed in the dynamic text.
Q3. When the Print command is clicked, it doesn't print all the dynamic values. Say while giving print

command from frame 1, the values in the frame 2 are not printed. When I move to page 1 and page 2

backand forth, and then give the print command both of the values are not printed (but they are

displayed). Where is the problem?

<as>
Code:
first frame:

stop();
letter = "B";

for(i = 1; i<5; i++){
this["item"+i+"_txt"].text = "value"+i;
trace(i);
}

//code for the print button to transfer the values to the print page.
choose_btn.onPress = function(){
PBitem3 = item3_txt.text;
PBitem4 = item4_txt.text;
for(j = 1;j<3; j++){
_level0["P"+letter+"item"+j]= _level0["item"+j+"_txt"].text;
}
gotoAndStop("print");
}

print frame:
for(k=1;k<8;k++){
_level0["printable_mc"]["PBitem"+k+"mc_txt"].text = _level0["PBitem"+k]
}

print_btn.onPress = function(){
print(_root.printable_mc, "bframe");

}

</as>

Low Quality Mc In High Quality Movie
the thing is....
i have my movie which is in high quality then i want one movieclip within this movie to be low quality, so i gave it this action:

onClipEvent (load) {
_quality=low;
}

this didnt work and the whole thing is still in high quality.

i'd appreciate anyone telling me what i'm doing wrong!
THX!!

High Quality To Low Quality Question
I have a loader taking up frames 1 - 3 that I want to remain as high quality and then from there on in frames 4 - 19 I want as low quality.

I have added on frame 1

_quality=high

and then on frame 4

_quality=low

But this does not seem to work - it seems to always be low quality throughout.

Where am I going wrong? - Any help would be so so so so welcome

Thanks in advance
Jools

Changing Low Quality Back To Hi Quality
Hi
i am making a CD rom with a lot of levels in flash

the misic is on level0
submenus on level 1
mainmenu level 3

any way when i load one swf onto level 1

this swf is flash lowquality file
which is fine as this is needed to run the movie

however after i unload the movie or press another option on the main menu

everything stays in low quality mode
is there some script that will bring the whole flash movie and all levels back to high quality?

hope someone can help
cheers

Can You Use Print() To Print External Swf's That Are Not In The Library?
Can this be done.

If i have a swf loaded (but not in the library) can i use print() from another .swf and print my target file?

thanks

Print Button Shows Up On Print Out
how do you set a print button so that it does no show up in the print out?

Window.print() Or Document.print()
Hello,

I'm trying to print some text that is in a Flash page with a button in the swf. I have never done this before and was wondering if anyone could show me the proper way to do this.

Thanks!

Print Directly Without Print Pannel
I have a trouble, and i dunno how resolve them.

I wanna print, but when i do click i need the command PRINT directly (like word when you click in the icon print), but in this case, appears the window print pannel, i dunno how print directly (i dont wanna see the window print pannel).

this is my as, it is correct, but anybody how to give the action to print directly (whitout print window pannel).

is really hard, my brain is don now... im freeze

// The code
on (release) {
var imp = new PrintJob();
var resultado = imp.start();
//var resultado = true;
if (resultado) {
imp.addPage(_root, {}, {printAsBitmap:true});
imp.send();
} else {
trace("Fallo");
}
//delete imp;
}

Print 2 Levels In One Print-command
Hi,

What I have done is a print-window that lets the user choose which pages to print. This works fine when the user selects only one checkbox but when more then one page is to be printed the problems starts.

Each page is loaded onto a different level. I don't want to have to reload the movie-clips since I have variables in them that need to remain intact. I then make the movie-clips invisible so that only on appear at a time on the main time-line (frames 5-9).

The code so far for the print-dialog looks like this...

on (press) {
if (_root.utskrift.alla_checkbox.getValue() == true) {
print(???);
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
if (_root.utskrift.prog_checkbox.getValue() == true) {
print(_level1, "bmovie");
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
if (_root.utskrift.dd_checkbox.getValue() == true) {
print(_level2, "bmovie");
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
if (_root.utskrift.dh_checkbox.getValue() == true) {
print(_level3, "bmovie");
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
if (_root.utskrift.funk_checkbox.getValue() == true) {
print(_level4, "bmovie");
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
if (_root.utskrift.samm_checkbox.getValue() == true) {
print(_level5, "bmovie");
unloadMovieNum(8);
}
}

... where movie8 is the print-window. The first if-statement is for printing all pages and if you can help me witj tjis I will be satisfied.

Any ideas that you have will be grately appreciated. This is the last thing I have to do before the project is finished so please help me before I go mad.

If you could axamplafy with some code that would be grate since I'm not a used programmer.

Print Wants To Print A Page For Each Layer?
hi,

i'm trying to figure out why my print button acts like it does, i've read a lot of posts and Macromedia docs on printing.
i have a main file with a blank MC that has external swfs loaded into it. the ext swfs have dynamic data which i need to be able to print.
a print button (which is in the main timeline) will pop up the print options and ask if you want to print pages 1-30, or 1-7, depending on the swf that is loaded (it would ideally only give the option to print 1 page... a page with the data).
the print button uses
printNum ("_root.main", "bmovie");
(i've also tried the "printasbitmap", and just "print")
the empty MC ("main") has a bounding box with a frame labelled #b.
the external swfs have #p on the frames i would like to print, and i even tried !#p on other frames to try to prevent it from asking if i want to print multiple pages.

any suggestions or pointing to articles/tuts that focus on involved printing practices would be greatly appreciated.
thanks!

Problem In Running A Flash MX-2004 Application On Windows 98 Adn Windows NT.
Hi all
I have this problem ......here it goes.....
Actually I developed a Flash MX-2004 application which has to run on both mac and windows platforms.
This application does the funciton of a dictionary and has 46 xml files and close to 13000 sound files.
This application runs fine on most Windows platform, however it doesnt work on Windows 98 and Windows NT where though the intro animation comes & the home screen loads....the application part of the program doesnt load.

Why is this so??? I am totally clueless...please help....
Do I have to make the intro and exit animations as separate swf files adn call them????
Please help....

Flash Popup Adverts/windows That Aren't Windows
Hi there

Just wondering if anyone knows any links to tutorials to make those flash adverts you find on websites? They are actual popup windows but flash boxes that appear above a webpage.

I think they use div layers as well as some flash? But im not sure where to find a tutorial!

For an example visit:

http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/index.jsp

(you might need to click on several pages down the left to get one to appear)

Any help on this would be a great help.

Thanks

Is It Possible To Make Windows Icons For Windows Xp With Flash Mx?
I have gotten bored of the simple icons that you automaticly get... and I wondered if its possible to make my own! Is it?

How To Create 'Windows' Windows With Flash?
I'd like to create a windows system like the one we use on windows. This is what i really like:
Yo have some buttons. When u click on any of 'em a popup window opens (inside could be text, image or movieclips or all of 'em). Last window it opens always shows up on top and if u select one that it's behind this comes automaticly to the top. I'd love too if u could minimize 'em and also if eacho one opens into a new swf.
There is a example of what I want here:
http://senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.49
But in that example everything is in the same swf, and as I said some lines before I want each window to open into another swf.

...........hope u can help me. Thanks!

How To Print Without A Print Dialog Box?
Hello,

I need to know how to print in flash without a windows "print dialog box" pop up??

Please Help Me...

Thanks

Not Able To Print More Than 5 Pages In One Print Job.
I am not able to print more than 5 pages in one go. I want to print almost 12 pages in one print job. I am creating the movieclips of each page by adding the dynamic data in to it and store in an array. When all the movieclips created and stored in an array(pagesAry) then it call the following function to print those pages:

private function sendToPrinter():void
{
pj = new PrintJob();
try
{
if(pj.start())
{
for(var n:Number=0; n<pagesAry.length; n++)
{
pj.addPage(pagesAry[n]);
}
pj.send();
}
}catch(e:Error)
{
// handle error
}
}

Getting error: Print job canceled as it took more than 15 seconds to complete.

Has anyone a idea?

Thanks for answeres.

Edited: 12/19/2008 at 11:33:18 AM by atul_kamboj

Windows Emulator.... Having Trouble With Minimizing The "windows".
I'm creating a website that will behave kinda' like Windows. I have a basic menu that when you click on an option, a window will open up. You can drag the windows and close them. However, I'm having trouble with the minimizing part.

Lets say that I have 3 "windows" (each is a movie clip) called "win1", "win2", and "win3". Each window has an instance of a minimize button. When you click the button, the window should minimize to the bottom of the screen, and line up in the order that it was minimized in (just like Windows). I figured out how to get them to minimize, but I can't get them to sort themselves correctly.

Lets say that I just minimized all three windows in this order:
win1, win2, win3

Now, if I click on win1 to maximize it, I want win2 and win3 to shift over to the left to take the place of win1. Then, if I minimize win1 again, it should go to the end of the row. Resulting in this order:
win2, win3, win1

Does anyone know of any code that I could make these windows sort themselves when they are minimized and maximized?

Thanks!
Lee

Interesting Issue With Flash And Windows - Flash Start With Windows?
Hey guys,
I'm programming a flash application that would run on a user's desktop (using MDM or similar programs to convert to a transparent background EXE).
My client would like to have the users select weather they want to application to start with windows or not. I would like to know how to make my flash application start with Windows without manually adding it (the users won't have to add it to the startup folder themselves). Can flash write to the registry? Can a third party program do it for me? The client wanted to EXE to run without an installation. Thank you very much!
Yuval Karmi

New Windows And Dragabel Windows
Right im new to flash and i need to know how to create a new window inside flash and how to make them dragable

Windows To Mac To Windows Problem
I'm a Mac user and I'm working on a large project with a client who is using Windows XP. My client is creating some Flash content in Windows and then sending the .swfs to me to incorporate into the site.

These files play fine on my computer. I upload them to my web server and my Windows-based clients are able to view them over the web. However, if I email the .swfs back to my client, they won't run on the Windows computer. This is a problem, since it's my client who will ultimately be hosting the site.

There is no problem with .swfs that I publish on my computer and then email to my client.

Any ideas?

Cannot Alter "document-jpeg-quality" And "use Imported Jpeg Quality"?
sometimes in MX i can always choose between "use document default jpeg-quality" or "enter an integer for quality" for imported jpeg-data. (possibly jpgs generated with photoshop 6)
sometimes i can never - i just have to choose between "use imported jpeg-quality" or "enter an integer for quality".
(definitely jpgs generated with photoshop 7)

can anyone tell me why this happens?

are there preferences in photoshop 7 that solve my problem?

thanxx jo

Launching Flash Windows From Flash Windows
Please can someone help me.

I am trying to create my own personal portfolio on cd. The main interface is a swf and contains a list of buttons (which are the titles of my work). When these buttons are pressed I want to launch a new flash window ontop of the existing one containing the piece of work.

I have looked at javascript popup windows using dreamweaver but have had no luck. I don't know whether this is because you have to use http's or that im thick and have no knowledge of javascript.

If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am using Flash MX if it makes a difference. If the solution is using javascript or html can please explain it to me like a 5 year old because I don't know what im doing.

Cheers
Cokey