Flash Printing
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- wetterink
My company is going to have some sales sheets on a cd. I want to do the foundation of this in Flash. The problem is that people will need to be able to print the sales sheets if they choose. Is there an easy way to do this that I am not thinking about? Keep in mind it will be your average "i am not good with computers" type of person. Thanks in advance.
- kld0
link to a printer friendly PDF?
- wetterink0
can you do that? can you link to an object not on the web? we could put the .pdfs on the cd with the .swf. would there be a way in flash to link it like i would if i was linking to a webpage?
- grafholic0
my company did something similar -- letting people print flash-based certificate. clicking on print button prompted the regular "print" popup in windows to open, etc.
the major issue was that the flash file itself was so huge that printing usually took a long time, even time-out on occassions.
- kld0
Sure, link to the file using a relative url
- sauerbraten0
you can also print an MC and as long as you format it just like a PDF or whatever, i mean, like 8.5/11" it prints perfect w/out using the Acrobat Reader, i've done this and it works beautifully.. lemme check on the code for it.
- sauerbraten0
http://www.macromedia.com/suppor…
you have anything you want to print in a frame and you give it a name of #p or something.. search for the built-in printNum function in Flash..
hope this helps