I am seeing the same problem...I am using embedded fonts and turning
anti-aliasing off...the last line of text is often cut off.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John Mark Hawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In order for Flash to know how much room it needs to print an
autosized text field, the font must be embedded. There's no way 'round
it. The _height of an autosized text field without embedded fonts will
not be correct (for printing).
> 
> 
> > 
> > From: "scott_flex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2007/05/01 Tue AM 08:19:08 CDT
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: FlexPrintJob not printing multiple
formatted lines successfully
> > 
> > 
> > Geneva, Tahoma and Verdana are 3 problematic fonts i have isolated to 
> > not print correctly.  I never get the last line of text to print.
> > 
> > These 3 fonts are installed on my pc.
> > 
> > The height of my text area is not set, it grows with the amount of 
> > html text and this has worked very well.  Always showing all text on 
> > screen but these 3 fonts never want to print the last line.
> > 
> > However, for these 3 fonts if I set the height of my text control to 
> > 2 pixels larger that what it would normally grow to when the height 
> > is not set, everything prints out ok... but I can't set the height of 
> > my text controls because I don't know ahead of time how much text 
> > they will contain.
> > 
> > At this time i plan to remove these 3 fonts from my selection list. 
> > It's odd since these are pretty common fonts.
> > 
> > Maybe i need to embed the fonts in the app itself, probably the 
> > safest since other users may not have the same font list as I.... but 
> > that's why i was sticking with common fonts.
> > 
> > Any other insight would be helpful....
> > 
> > --Scott
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "scott_flex" <skrause@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > Well.... i have determined that it really doesn't matter what font 
> > > family or size it is.... it just won't print the last line even 
> > > though all lines appear on screen with no scroll bars.
> > > 
> > > The html text of my mx:text object is:
> > > <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" 
> > > SIZE="12" COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">When i try 
> > to 
> > > print this text from a mx:text control and the text wraps to more 
> > > than one line, the last line will not print.  It just prints a 
> > white 
> > > blank line intstead.  My mx:text component is set to 400 width 
> > which 
> > > is inside a grid item which inside a grid row which is inside  
> > mx:gid 
> > > object.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>
> > > 
> > > The width of my mx:text object is set to 400... and even though the 
> > > first few lines print they don't line break exactly as they do on 
> > > screen... just thought that was odd but probably has something to 
> > do 
> > > with the scaling when it prints.  I just want it to print the last 
> > > line.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... i'm desperate for ideas of 
> > > what might be the issue.
> > > 
> > > --Scott
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "scott_flex" <skrause@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > I have a text control displayed with multiple lines of wrapped 
> > > text , 
> > > > no scroll bars, all text is completely displayed on screen.  When 
> > i 
> > > > send this text to the printer only the first line is printed.
> > > > 
> > > > The text control is displaying html formatted text.  This only 
> > > happens 
> > > > to certain font/size combinations.  Verdana 11 prints first line 
> > > only, 
> > > > second and 3rd lines don't print, even though they are on screen 
> > > ok.  
> > > > Verdana 12 prints just fine, 2nd and following lines print ok.
> > > > 
> > > > I've set the print object to NOT print as bitmap 
> > > (printAsBitmap=false) 
> > > > and the scale type for each object added to the print job is set 
> > to 
> > > > show all.
> > > > 
> > > > Haven't figured out why this happens for some font/size 
> > > combonations... 
> > > > any ideas?
> > > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> --
> John Mark Hawley
> The Nilbog Group
> 773.968.4980 (cell)
>


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