Flash :: Printing Too Many Pages

Printing Variable Pages
I’m using a the following print script.

my_print.onRelease = function(){

var my_pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();

var myResult:Boolean = my_pj.start();

if(myResult) {

my_pj.addPage("main"); //change resultPage to the name or level of the movieClip you want to print

my_pj.send();

}

delete my_pj;

}

Now I have figured out if I want to print two pages I just add my_pj.addPage("main2"); or another name I also want to print

Now the document I am making has a variable text from a database.

What I want to do is have a few pages put only prints out the correct one for the correct value (gender) of the database

So if var1 = male true my_pj.addPage("male");
Else var1 = male false my_pj.addPage("female");

Or something like that I know I have seen it but how can I use it to print the kind of page I need, and also once this data is in the variable text field would I need to reload that data in the flash or something?

Printing On Multiple Pages
Hi
I have a movie which has a particularly large height. I need to print the content of this movie. I have used the printAsBitmap(target,"bmax") which prints the whole movie on one page BUT scaled down to fit. This makes the content too small to read. Width is not a problem but the height is. Is there a way to print this over multiple pages?
thanks

Printing 'unseen' Pages
This is a question about methodology. I have a movie that dynamically loads data and spools and prints scoresheets via PrintJob which works fine. It has a size of 8.5 x 11 (576 x 756) to print properly. My problem is that it is part of a smaller 450 * 300 movie that I don't want to resize. Can I load and print this scoresheet movie sight unseen? My movies are all actionscript with 1 layer and 1 frame long.
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers,
Rob

Printing Multiple Pages
My project consists of a main page.... and there is a button, clicking on it will load different swf files into the main page. Now if i say print from the main page.... I should be able to print all the printable frames from each swf.... along with the frame in the main movie.... right now iam able to load whichever is there in the screen... but i want to print all the swf files which are off the screen also....

Somebody help.....

Printing Multiple Dynamic Pages
Major problem that seems to be circulating on many groups, with no answer...
Importing loads of text via XML and want to print it out on multiple pages (instead of all the text getting crammed onto one page)...
Have a seperate movieclip with the multiple frames, each representing a printed page, all labelled #b, and each frame has it's own dynamic textfield.
Can update the textfield on the first frame of the movieclip, but can't seem to get to the textfields on any of the other frames in order for the print command to print the updated text...
any ideas?
PLEASE HELP!

smorrow

Unlimited Printing - Multiple Pages
At the end of a project I have a print facility which allows the user to print out all their collected input for review. The problem is that they can write in as much as they like in each section - therefore this means the variable at the end which collects all the input strings together at the end could be book length if they were bothered enough - but in general will certainly be multipage. How do I set it up so that flash will print all the text on as many pages as required? Thanks in advance.

Printing Pages In CCS Webpage Layers
Hello.

I am having some trouble with this site http://www.globeranger.com.

When the user prints any of the pages for the site, the blue navigation bar prints in the same spot on each sequential page.

Does anyone know a way to make it print on the first page alone? I belive that this is a result of the use of layers instead of resulting b/c the nav is Flash.

Thanks for any help you all can render.
Davin

Printjob Printing Blank Pages
i'm building a printing class.
it worked fine before i optimised the code with the for loop.
now, i get the desired output in the swf window but the printouts are blank.
i believe it has something to do with scope/children and what belongs where in the z order but i'm just guessing really.

any help is much appreciated.
thanks.

fla:-

<code>
import printing.PrintExample;
var gameData:Array = new Array("df","alice","10","5","8");
var Print:PrintExample = new printing.PrintExample(gameData);
addChild (Print);
</code>

as:-

<code>
package printing
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.printing.*;

public class PrintExample extends Sprite
{
private var _printableContent:Sprite = new Sprite();
private var _textField:TextField = new TextField();
private var _nameField:TextField = new TextField();
private var _ageField:TextField = new TextField();
private var _gameField:TextField = new TextField();
private var _scoreField:TextField = new TextField();
private var printJob:PrintJob;
private var gameData:Array;
public var finished:Boolean = false;
private var fields:Array = new Array("_textField","_nameField","_ageField","_game Field","_scoreField");
public function PrintExample (_data)
{
gameData = _data;

for (var i:int = 0; i< gameData.length; i++)
{
addChild (_printableContent);
_printableContent.addChild (this[fields[i]]);
(this[fields[i]]).width = 400;
(this[fields[i]]).autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
(this[fields[i]]).x = 20;
(this[fields[i]]).y = (i*20)+20;
(this[fields[i]]).text = gameData[i];
if (i==4)
{
finished = true;
}
}

printJob = new PrintJob();
printJob.start ();
if (finished == true)
{
trace ("finished");
printJob.addPage (_printableContent);
printJob.send ();
}
else
{
trace ("not finished");

}
}
}
}
</code>

PrintJob - Not Printing Multiple Pages
When I say "Not printing multiple pages", I mean that sometimes on slower computers or printers, it would appear that the spooling ends prematurely, while on other faster computers/printers, everything gets printed fine.

Any solution to this, cause honestly, I can't see it. I don't think it's the code, because it does print ok from my computer, but others can only print 10 of 30 pages, sometimes more, but rarely all. Appreciate any help!

Urgent: Printing Multiple Pages.
Hi, all

I have to print 4 pages from flash, i tried the print job class it is printing only the first page. how can i print the remaining 3 pages ? pls help me.

Thank You,
omkar.

Printing Dynamic Pages In Flash - Reports
I need to make reports and print many pages at ones in Flash widh just one print action. In my timeline for the parent movie I have a couple of child movieclips in frame 5, 10, 15 , 20 ... and so on. The problem is that the frames I wanted to be printed are using dynamic loaded data.

I use duplicatemovie and loadmovie commands for loading dynamic data in my child movies. I use the label #p för every child movie. I can go between the frames in my movie and it thing looks fine on the screen in runtime mode, but when I use the print command, the printers just print my child movies without the loaded data. It seems that when the printer looking for the labels width #p for printing them it also take all the loaded data away for my child movies.

It seems that Flash every time you go to a frame width a new movieclip it call the function onClipEvent (load) .... so all my dynamic data is goone, just the start data left for the child movie.

Any suggestion one the problem,
can I load my dynamic data in another way. The importent thing is that I want to print many pages width differnt data thats beeing changed from time to time dynamic, and I just want to use one printaction to print all my pages.

regards olsu

Printing Dynamic Contents In Multiple Pages
Is there any solution for printing multiple pages which contains dynamic content.

Printing From Loaded Movie Gives Empty Pages
Hi all,

I need to print a movieclip from a .swf that is loaded into another .swf.

However, the print gives empty pages. The printing works fine when the swf is not loaded into another other swf.

So structure is:
main.swf (loades)
print.swf (swf that contains the movieclip to print)

print.swf works fine when run standalone in a browser.

I am using the printJob class. It does not seem to be a path problem...

Any ideas?

Printing Multiple Pages - Actionscript Not Working
Hi all,

I've looked around the forum for a similar problem but can't seem to find it.

I'm working on a multipaged flash form for which I need to print out a large document with all the information collected in the form. In the various screens, I've used radio buttons to collect a lot of "yes/no" type information. When I go to print the document at the end, I've got little 'x' movie clips that are all set opacity = 0 and then have used actionscript to set opacity to 100 if the 'x' should appear.

The problem I can't solve - this is all working fine for the first page (frame) that is being printed, but all of the other pages (frames) won't show any of the 'x's. If I simply view the pages instead of printing them, all the 'x's are showing up fine. I'm using code like this:

Code:
if(_root.s1_sex == "male"){
male_x._alpha = 100;
}else if(_root.s1_sex == "female"){
female_x._alpha = 100;
}
I originally had the code for each page inside a movie for each page, but thought that that may be a problem, so tried putting all the code on the first frame of the movie before calling the print function, but that didn't seem to make a difference. To print I'm using:

Code:
print(_level0.container.printpages, "bmovie");
I *hope* this makes sense - I know it seems confusing... I'm restricted to AS2 because that's all I really know. I'd really appreciate any help that anyone can give me. I'm totally stuck!

Problem Printing Multiple Pages With PrintJob
Can I have some help please?

I have a flash file that prints labels, this all works fine for single pages; however I would like to print multiple pages of the same movie clip (sticker_mc) which content changes when my function autoSet() is run. (autoSet() changes content of dynamic text fields of sub movie clips and also shows/hides some sub movie clip when required).

The code below prints multiple pages as I expected (2 pages, 3 pages, 4 pages etc as required), but the dynamic text fields data stay the same for each page as it is when initial print request is called.

The function autoSet() works perfectly (I run it manually without the print request), and when the print has completed the sticker_mc movie clip is displaying the data as it is intended.

Sticker_mc has four sub movie clips; in my testing I sent two pages to the printer, the first page has all four sub movies visible (as intended) and the second page prints with only two sub movies visible (as intended) but the dynamic text files which should of change remains the same as the first page. However the movie clip which is displayed on the screen once the print request has completed, has the correct data in the dynamic text fields. ??????????????

I hope this is understandable, Iâ€™ve spent a whole day playing with the code trying to sort it out and would dearly like some help before I start to cry!!!

Thanks

Russell

Attach Code

printLabel = function () {
var my_pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
if (my_pj.start()) {
var pagesToPrint:Number = 0;
if (my_pj.orientation == "portrait") {
// portrait page.
sticker_mc._rotation -= 90;
// This checks to see if variable â€œfilesâ€ is bigger than 0, if it is it will loop addPage until complete (the function autoSet() reduces the
// variable â€œfilesâ€ and changes the content of â€œsticker_mcâ€.
if (files>0) {
if (my_pj.addPage(sticker_mc, {xMin:0, xMax:600, yMin:0, yMax:700})) {
pagesToPrint++;
}
for (j=files j>0; j=files) {
autoSet();
if (my_pj.addPage(sticker_mc, {xMin:0, xMax:pWidth, yMin:0, yMax:pHeight})) {
pagesToPrint++;
}
}
} else {
if (my_pj.addPage(sticker_mc, {xMin:0, xMax:700, yMin:0, yMax:600})) {
pagesToPrint++;
}
}
sticker_mc._rotation += 90;
} else {
// my_pj.orientation is "landscape".
// landscape page.
if (my_pj.addPage(sticker_mc, {xMin:0, xMax:pWidth, yMin:0, yMax:pHeight})) {
pagesToPrint++;
}
}
if (pagesToPrint>0) {
my_pj.send();
}
}
delete my_pj;
};

Printing Multiple Pages Melts Flash
I know what you're thinking, who in their right mind would want to print that many pages in one sitting, well, my users for one. I have been working on an web-based print app that involves some fairly intense user controlled scale adjustments, and I've got it all working pretty well, but... when I try to print out something in the region of 300+ pages I get furnished with a rather tastefully placed error message saying:

"a script on this page is causing flash 9 to run slowly"

"Oh, that old chestnut" I hear you say "just fix by using setTimeout", well I'd love to, however the problem is whenever you reset the timeout, it bins what is in the printJob. Grrrr, has anyone found a work around for this or is it just a problem we have to endure until the bods at flash fix it.

Printing Mc From Loaded Clip Gives Empty Pages
Hi all,

So I need to print a mc from a .swf that is loaded into another .swf.

However the print gives empty pages. The printing works fine when the swf is not loaded into another other swf.

So structure is:
main.swf (loades)
print.swf (swf that contains the mc to print)

print.swf works fine when run standalone in a browser.

I am using the printJob class. It does not seem to be a path problem... Any ideas?

Code:
mcPrint.onRelease = function() {
this.gotoAndStop("out");
var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
// Letter paper size
pj.pageHeight = 730;
pj.pageWidth = 550;
if (pj.start()){
tr.text = "WOOO!";
pj.addPage("mcResultsAllPrint", {xMin:0,xMax:550,yMin:0,yMax:710});
pj.addPage("mcResultsAllPrint", {xMin:0,xMax:550,yMin:700,yMax:1270});
pj.addPage("mcResultsAllPrint", {xMin:0,xMax:550,yMin:1270,yMax:2150});
pj.send();
} else {
tr.text = "Problem!";
}
delete pj;
};

Printing Pages With Scrolling Text Boxes
I'm wondering if anyone has ever had any success getting the contents of a scrolling text box to print for users. I know how to get the page to print but I would like to know if scrolling text box contents can be programmed to print.

Is there a work-around to this?

Printing Pages From Flash Movies - Definite No No?
Hi there all,

I was wondering if anyone had any experience of printing content from flash movies?

is it possible to do? - really difficult? - avoid at all costs?

Because i'm currently debating whether to print from the flash movie, or have a seperate web page with all the content on and tell people to print from that.

any comments / suggestions?

Cheers

Printing Multiple Pages Of A Scrollable Dynamic Text Box
I've seen a number of posts in this forum and others about how to print text out of a scrollable dynamic text box. Some people have come up with solutions like making another dynamic text box off-stage that is A4-size that contains the same text as the scrollable text box. The printJob() action then uses this text box as its target and prints a nice A4 page.

But what if there is so much text, it needs more than one A4 page to print? I've been searching for answers without much luck, but I did come across this:

ActionScript Code:
on (click) {//create PrintJob objectmyPrintJob = new PrintJob();//display print dialog boxmyPrintJob.start();var maxS:Number; //total number of lines in textAreavar botS:Number; //total number of lines visible in scroll box//loop through untill i have added a page for each scroll panefor (var i = 1; botS*i<=maxS; i++) {// add specified area to print jobmyPrintJob.addPage("_root.print_txta", {xMin:-36, xMax:612, yMin:-36, yMax:792}, {printAsBitmap:false});maxS = _root.print_txta.label.maxscroll ;botS = _root.print_txta.label.bottomScroll;//manually scroll the box_root.print_txta.vPosition = botS; }// send pages from the spooler to the printermyPrintJob.send();// clean updelete myPrintJob;}

Source: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash...=00001640.html

This would obviously be attached to a button, and is trying to print a text box named "print_txta" at the _root level. The trouble is, it doesn't work!.

I've tried changing it around a bit, like relocating the ending } of the loop, but still cannot get it to work. All it does is print the one page over and over (luckily I was printint to Adobe PDF, so I wasn't wasting paper! I recommend you do the same if you want to test the script!) and if you have more text than will fit on one A4 page, it ignores everything past the first page!

I wonder if anyone else on this board can make more sense out of the above script and perhaps get it to actually work in the way it was supposed to? I think this would benefit a lot of people out there.

Need An Explicit Printing Tutorial For Flash 5 Or An Expert On Printing...
Been trying to print for a couple of hours now.
It seems to work fine when I use simple objet on the main timeline, but I get weird result when trying to print nested object.

For example, it got a movie clip containing multiple duplicate mc, and a dynamic text field. This movie clip is out of the movie stage.

When I try to print it it using:

printAsBitmap(this.effective.printArea, "bMovie");

nothing get printed.

so I move the movie on the stage.

this.effective._x = 0;
this.effective._y = 0;
printAsBitmap(this.effective.printArea, "bMovie");

the frame gets printed, but the text is out of phase even if it looks fine on the screen.

I have define the label of the frame I want to print with #p and the printing area with #b.

Why can I print my movie if it's off the stage, and why does the dynamic text field is printed out of phase when I tried to print ?

----------------------------------

At least can someone direct me to a good flash 5 tutorial on printing...

Martin
martin.tremblay37@sympatico.ca

Flash Printing - Trouble Printing Bitmap
Hello,

I have a Flash MX (not 2004) project that generates dynamic printable coupons. Here's the lowdown of what happens:

1. The flash coupon is loaded - dynamically loads in text and an external jpeg. This data is displayed in one frame that the user sees on the screen, and in another frame that the user never sees but is sent to the printer.
2. User presses print.
3. The flash movie sends the 'print this' frame to the printer, and voila! Printed coupon!

Here's a sample link: http://givingcorps.com/gc_central/br...&CoId=2&ChId=4

All works well, but when it comes time to print the coupon, everything prints but the jpeg. In fact, after you hit the 'print' button and the print dialogue box comes up, and you begin to print, you can actually see the jpeg vanish from the flash movie, only to return when print dialog box is finished!

I've tried a variety of tests - printing just the current frame, incorporating a test to make sure the image is loaded before allowing printing, and trying all the different print functions. I'm aware that print() only prints vector while printAsBitmap() will print everything, although with less quality, and I'm currently using printAsBitmap().

Has anybody run into this? Is there any solution or anything I'm overlooking?

Thanks for your help.

Printing Flash Player 7 Printing
hi,
i want to set up a flash site with multiple levels and have all levels print. is this possible? i've printed before out of flash playere 7 but was only able to print out of one level. any insights would be appreciated.
muchas gracias,
lavadome

Printing In Flash. Problem With Printing Twice...
I have an all vector form that displays data within it. As soon as it opens, it prints. I am running this in the first frame of the root time line.

Code:
print(_level0, "bmax");
stop();
The timeline is 2 frames and I am wanting to print both pages. Everything works fine expect after the print dialog box pops up and you hit print, then it prints the 2 frames, it pops up again and wants to print the pages one more time. I only want it to print once. Any ideas?

How Do I Link Swf Pages To Other Swf Pages
I just designed my first complete website using only Swish. However the site is over 5meg and takes forever to load. I realize that i have to design only one scene in a movie for the main page and then have it link to another single scene movie. I'm not sure how to do it. any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Dave

Loading Pages Within Pages
I have a flash menu I made. It's pretty big (741 x 426). I have several buttons on the menu with some animation. Each time you click on one of the buttons, the menu and the button does an animation.

My problem is my main menu, has many sub menu's. I dont want to go to a new page each time they click on a link.

I want the sub menu's to be able to load any of the pages on my site at the bottom of the page clicking on the buttons. So I want the page to be blank at first except the flash menu, when you click a button it loads a page at the bottom, without having to go to a new page...

I cant do frames because of the large size of the menu and I want the menu to dissapear when you scroll since it's so big.

So what's the easiest way to load a html page within a page and what action would I use to make it happen? I just recently got a flash mp3 player that loads files using xml, is that possible to laod html files onto a page with xml?

Pages With In A Page? Sub Pages
I need some help,
On my flash site i have a a section called "photoshop" and i am almost running out of space to put pop up buttons that you click and it brings up my artwork
(see image)

I know its possible and that if I put some buttons that say something like next and back for browsing through pages I can have more than one page on the "photoshop" section, sort of like a sub page

I know I can do it I just don't know how so if anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated and thanks

Printing, Why Is Printing Such A Problem?
Why can I not print several specific frames on the main timeline?

I know how to use the #p label and all those other print tutorials...

Does anyone have a solution?Or leads, or something

Printing And Printing Datagrids
Hi - a double question here - can anyone help with information on creating a print button for a page in an swf and also to printout the entire contents of a datagrid?

thanks!

f

Vector Printing Of TextField. Part Of TextField Not Printing.
Hi, I hope somebody here can help me.
I have a movieclip with a dynamic textField in it.
I set autoSize = "center" and fill it with text.
Then, if i then use PrintJob.addPage("myPage", {printAsBitmap:false}); , the bottom few lines of the textfield don't print. (The textField shows up fine on the screen.)

The textField shows up fine if I use {printAsBitmap:false}, allbeit in lower quality.

If anyone can make a dynamic textField print properly as vector, please lemme know.

thx,
miguel3d

Web Pages
Real newbee here - I want to create a web page to be viewed standard 800x600. I want to use flash to do this. When I create the homepage, do I design it as one graphic and add buttons as layers as an example.

Msn Pages
[font=century gothic]I am totally new and green to flash until buying the swish 2.0 ...wait a minute still green ... my ? is can i use swish created movies in msn pages ? and if so ... how ? i copied the html to the clipboard then pasted it in the msndialog thingy and got a bunch of code when the page finally loaded ... HELP !

Web Pages
I would like to make a webpage made almost exclusively with Flash MX and the rest with Dreamweaver MX. I found a few tutorials on making popup menus and the like, but how can I go about making the rest (buttons, other pages, etc) and then do I import it into DW? Please help, but speak in lamens terms as I am new at Flash.

Steve

Name.php?id=1 Pages
hi all ive been to this websaite at this url http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/ adn at the top where the pictures at each picture refers to the same housemate_news.jsp page with ?id=1 to ?id=12 could some 1 please tell me how this is done i was told its a $_get templete done aany1 know how to do this please if so could you post it hre 4 me as i'm in need i cant do it ive tryed but not sure how to do it thankyou

Help On Swf And Htm Pages
Hi Guys I just got started in Embedding my Flash movies with my dreamweaver and when I upload the swf and htm pages to my web site if I click on the swf file it takes time to download the file BUT if I click on the htm file it opens the page a right up. is it ok to link to the htm file so it opens right up and you don't have to wate for it to download like you do with the swf file? thank you for your help.

joekid54

Going To Pages
Hey... i am making my site using a movie i found here but i am editing it and soo on... but ya this is what i have so far http://24.82.2.93/~sean/Site/SeanzPlace.swf

BUT when you go to the "main menu" and go to about us it works fine but when i started to change the pages and add some i got lost! SO VERY LOST!! when i click on the friends link it goes to about us...

the action script that is on the about us link is something like

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("open about us");
}

and on the friends link it is

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("open friends");
}

i dont know if this will work but heres the .fla

http://24.82.2.93/~sean/Site/SeanzPlace.fla

CAN SOMEONE HELP ME OUT!!!

Help With Two Pages.
I put up a website for my mom's daycare for her birthday. It's gonna be used mostly for the parents to see their kid pics as she always has a waiting list so it's not to draw more business. I tried to keep it simple as she cares for mostly middle to low income families that don't have high-speed internet. I would like to add a flash picture viewer for those that have high-speed. Something with a globe where you can click an arrow and make the pics spin around the globe. I've gone through tutorials, and even tried templates but they just don't work or at least I can't get them to work.
Can someone point me in the right direction to getting this done. The website is www.lilmunchkinschildcare.com Any help would be appreciated.
I use Macromedia Pro Flash 8

Pages
Hey guys, what i'm haveing an issue with is, when A page loads it doesn't fit the interface window. I've tried resizeing the .html file but it's running off of the .swf file so it wouldn't work. Is there a way to resize the .swf without haveing the .fla file to do it. I lost it when my hdd fried.

www.tromiano1.com

click on the MMORPG and Family links. You'll no what I'm talking about.

Thanks.

Pages
Hi all, i'm a noob at flash design and I need some major help with the actionscript coding for my flash website. I have designed the home page, however i can't figure out how to get the other pages to load when the corresponding button is pressed. For example, I have a movie clip that will transition the "about me" page in when the "about me" button is pressed using the following code:
var aboutme:MovieClip;
var aboutmebtn:Button;
aboutmebtn.onRelease = function(); {
aboutme.play();
}

When I load the clip and click on the button, it works the first time, however if I try to click on the button a second time, the animation will not play. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? please help!