From flex-dev-return-3913-apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Sat Feb 4 16:06:57 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05AC691CD for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:06:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 70102 invoked by uid 500); 4 Feb 2012 16:06:56 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 70010 invoked by uid 500); 4 Feb 2012 16:06:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact flex-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 70002 invoked by uid 99); 4 Feb 2012 16:06:55 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:06:55 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [80.237.132.80] (HELO wp073.webpack.hosteurope.de) (80.237.132.80) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:06:46 +0000 Received: from p4aa831.osaknt01.ap.so-net.ne.jp ([120.74.168.49] helo=[192.168.1.21]); authenticated by wp073.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) id 1Rti89-0001Q0-6e; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:06:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4F2D5774.1030706@leichtgewicht.at> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:06:12 +0900 From: Martin Heidegger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [Discussion] Printing from Flex References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;mh@leichtgewicht.at;1328371606;5e930de1; X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Hello Jack, I came to the conclusion that printing is basically broken in flash. I didn't manage to get a solid printing solution done with Flash even with years of experience and two weeks time last October. Pages were distorted, missing or black. I was rather astonished because I remember a working printing solution in Flash Player 9. It seems it doesn't work since Flash Player 10.2 or so. Don't get me wrong: It works for some cases like if the sheet to print is simple enough as vector or small enough as bitmap, but it has very narrow limits. Bugs have been filed and marked fixed, even though they are not. I didn't take the time to provide a solid test suite at that time for printing with broken results as I got into serious deadline problems because of mentioned bugs. I am telling this because my attempt to a good printing solution would be first to see how much is working right now. With reproducible, complex tests. After that I think it would be interesting to elaborate about a nicer, easier-to-use API within the Flex context (that is long overdue). yours Martin.