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Pieter van Niekerk
Pieter van Niekerk

Reputation: 848

Flex Printing - Can it be done?

I want to know if anyone has successfully printed something from Flex.

By successful I am talking about some sort of report or document or whatever.

I know its fairly simple to print a component(which is a bit cheap) from Flex by using the printJob() class and passing a component. But I want to pass an object like a list or XML to printJob().

Upvotes: 5

Views: 728

Answers (4)

Badr
Badr

Reputation: 10648

purepdf is best among all for printing in flex it converts the flex data to pdf for printing

Upvotes: 0

jcelgin
jcelgin

Reputation: 1174

AlivePDF seems to be gaining steam in the community, give it a look.

Upvotes: 3

Thalaivar
Thalaivar

Reputation: 23632

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/printing/FlexPrintJob.html

The best way is to handle it through Backend. But again you can use ActionScript to print your object contents. Have you heard of BitmapData Class.

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/BitmapData.html

With this you can read pixel by pixel and send to printer to print the Object.

Upvotes: 0

JeffryHouser
JeffryHouser

Reputation: 39408

How do you want your object to look in the printout? And how do you expect Flex to know that? How can you expect Flex to print out an object with no visual representation?

As best I understand most people will give up trying to do printing in Flex and pass such objects to the backend and use something (such as iText or ColdFusion ) to generate a PDF.

Of course, whether doing this in the backend, or with Flex, you'll still have to write the formatting code.

I'm sure you can extend the PrintJob class to accept an object and format it for printing before actually printing.

Upvotes: 1

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