Re: FLASH: Printing (graphically) to a file

[Gregg Caines]

Do you really need to save a graphic to the file, or would it

be enough to write just the plain text info to the file to be

loaded later for printing?  I think that would be more

manageable.


I don't know what platform you're on, or if you're talking

about the web or through a projector, but I'm assuming a

projector on a PC (since you are talking about EXEs).  In

that case you can load your Flash movie into an activex

control in VB or Delphi and use FSCommand to send and

retrieve info from the windows app.  The app could easily

read and write files.


Otherwise I really can't think of a way to add that

functionality with just pure Flash.  There may be some

printer driver with a 'write to disk' feature, but I don't know

of any.


HTH!


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> We are generating our reports from Flash now and it is working very well

> (using getURL(print:...).

>

> Now we have a need to save these report images to disk, rather than

printing

> them, and then print them at a later time from a separate Flash

application.

> Does anyone have any ideas on how we would be able to do this?  We would

be

> willing to create a separate .exe app for this if necessary.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Gary



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