Re: FLASH: A problem with the print function... PLEASE test it

[Andries van der Leij]

> Hi Helen,

>

> Just thought of this thread again while I was looking for s'th at the mm

> site and saw this (at

> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/webprinting/faq.html):

> "Flash Player 4.0.20 or greater is required" (for using the flash print

> function).  I don't know if or how many versions of Flash 4 there were

> before 4.0.20, but maybe the people who are having problems printing

> your page have an older version that doesn't support printing?

>


You're right. Most people won't have the plugin >4.0.20. I believe that this

version

was released in december last year, but I'm not quite sure. You can download

a

nice tutorial at the MM site with documentation on how to use the script to

check

the player and how to load an external flash file that is loaded when you

push a

print button.  I've downloaded the tutorial andused this script and when the

user

doesn't have the right plugin, hewill see two other buttons: "get flash" and

"download as wordfile".


You can download the  tutorial ( Flash 4 print authoring SDK) at:


http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/webprinting/authoring.html


They made a small banner which still allows you to print out a nice two page

document


There is a technote on this subject too:


http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/version.htm


The problem was that I used this script, but still had complaints from some

users, I'm not quite

sure what the problem was but I get the feeling that it is solved.


Best regards,


Andries van der Leij

AndriestheMetroStation [dot] com

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