Re: FLASH: printing pdfs from Flash

[sHANE bECKER]

as far as not being able to use a page layout program, you could use

illustrator 9 and export to .swf.  then import the .swf into the

appropriate frame.  and use that to print.


i say don't use .pdf printing in flash


sHANE



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JGL wrote:

> 

> Flash's print function allows a frame to be printed . . . even a frame that

> has never or will be seen by the cd user. It's a pretty awesome ability. So

> you could format the docs into a flash frame. Flash has pretty darn good

> layout capabilities and when published uses much less bandwidth than .pdf

> documents. Although you really don't get to benefit from using a page making

> program like pagemaker or quark, nonetheless it would be pretty easy to

> compile those documents in flash - although take some time . . . but worth

> it in my opinion. The text can even be loaded variables . . .

> 

> If the cd user doesn't have acrobat, you will need to have them install

> that.

> 

> just some more thoughts . . .

> 

> jgl

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> Thanks for the reply.

> The project consists of about fifty links to the pdf docs. The users already

> know approximately what's in the docs and don't need to look at them. They

> just need to compile the list of the files that they need and hit "print".

> That's why I don't want pdfs to open before printing.

> This is for the cd, and the interface has already been designed in Flash and

> functionality is there too (like rollovers, etc). So I don't want to move to

> Director.

> The plan for now is to create a list of variables (names of the files that

> needed to be printed) in Flash, pass it to Director and use Xtra MasterApp

> that can open pdf files hidden and print them "invisibly".

> Any other options, anyone?

> 

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