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techKNOWLEDGEy
06-26-2005, 08:42 PM
I'm having serious problems with my pc right now. I can't open Illustrator for some reason, so I designed a little map for my wedding in Flash.
I don't have much experience printing in flash, but for some reason it's printing my map on 4 pages. (If you laid 4 pages together with a portrait orientation, so that there are 2 pages on top & 2 pages directly below those, the image is printing on the inside corners of each page)
I've checked the document properties box, set the size to 8.5" x 11", that doesn't fix it. I've checked the page set up in the file menu, that's not it, I've checked the printer properties in the control panel, didn't see anything there. I tried to save as a jpeg & printed from Photoshop & it looks like crap. Does anyone have any idea what I might possibly be doing wrong??? Any help appreciated.

BlackBox
06-26-2005, 11:06 PM
What version of Flash are you using? mx04?

If it's actionscript 2.0 then you can take advantage of the new "printjob" script which lets you define where to print, how many pages and from an external file etc..
Actually i think you can define what area of the page to print on the previous version but I've never done it.

This is how I printed something so it was on an 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper

print_btn.onRelease = function() {
myPrintjob_pj = new PrintJob();
myPrintjob_pj.start();
myPrintjob_pj.addPage(0,{xMin: 10, xMax: 530, yMin: 10, yMax: 800});
myPrintjob_pj.send();
delete myPrintJob_pj;
};

Good luck