RE: [flexcoders] Re: Advanced Printing Question
Hi Tracy,
Not a problem. Yes, my printing needs are quite modest aswell and like I
said in the original email, this solution exceeds my printing needs at the
moment, but offeres the flexibility I need.
Please find attached a simple mxml file as well as a java file which will
need to be compiled.
Add the servlet and servlet mapping to the web.xml file as below:
SimplePdf
samples.SimplePdf
SimplePdf
/servlet/simplePdf.pdf
You will also need to download the latest iText jar (itext-1.2.jar) and add
this to the lib directory along with servlet.jar
I hope this helps with your printing needs, so enjoy and have fun with the
iText library.
Regards
Mark
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From: Tracy Spratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2005 9:25 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Advanced Printing Question
Mark, I'd love to see a simple working example of this.
Luckily, my printing needs at the moment are modest, but an interim
solution, while MM improves native printing, would be a delight.
Tracy
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From: Mark Hitchcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:06 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Advanced Printing Question
I have also had a number of problems with support for printing in Flex so I
started to look outside of Flex for a solution. There are probably a number
3rd party tools that you could try however as I am more comfortable with
Java and Flex is running in a Java app server anyway, I have implemented a
solution that works very well for what I am trying to achieve with iText.
iText is a free Java PDF library and can be found here
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ this has also been ported to .NET if anyone
is interested in that.
The way I have integrated this with Flex is via a Servlet and then using the
getURL method in Flex. This dynamically creates a pdf every time the
servlet is called. I am able to add headers, footers, images, tables etc,
and the list goes on.
I'm not sure if this will meet everyone's needs or how support for printing
in Flex will improve with future releases of Flex, however this meets and
exceeds the printing needs of what I need to do. If anyone is interested in
a working example, just let me know and I will post a simple example I have
working. If anyone from MM has looked into this or has any comments on
using iText that would be great also.
Regards
Mark Hitchcock
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From: Manish Jethani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:42 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Advanced Printing Question
AC wrote:
> The idea is: If I can programmatically build a complex nested control
> (eg Lables inside HBox, which are in turn inside VBox which can have a
> variety of different sibling controls) and then send it to the print
> to SUCCESSFULLY print, I would save a lot of work and maintenance
> issues in the long run.
You can create it at runtime.
var myPrintableView = PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, VBox, false);
myPrintableView.visible = false;
var hbox = myPrintableView.createChild(HBox, "", {});
var label1 = hbox.createChild(Label, "", {text: "Address:"});
... and so on. Then you send 'myPrintableView' to printing.
Manish
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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Advanced Printing Question
I have also had a number of
problems with support for printing in Flex so I started to look outside of Flex
for a solution. There are probably a number 3rd party tools that you could
try however as I am more comfortable with Java and Flex is running in a Java app
server anyway, I have implemented a solution that works very well for what I am
trying to achieve with iText. iText is a free Java PDF library and can be
found here http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ this has also been ported to .NET if anyone is
interested in that.
The way I have integrated this with
Flex is via a Servlet and then using the getURL method in Flex. This
dynamically creates a pdf every time the servlet is called. I am ableto
add headers, footers, images, tables etc, and the list goes
on.
I'm not sure if this will meet everyone's needs or how
support for printing in Flex will improve with future releases of Flex, however
this meets and exceeds the printing needs of what I need to do. If anyone
is interested in a working example, just let me know and I will post a
simple example I have working. If anyone from MM has looked intothis
or has any comments on using iText that would be great also.
Regards
Mark Hitchcock
From: Manish Jethani
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:42
AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders]
Re: Advanced Printing Question
AC wrote:> The idea is: If I can programmatically
build a complex nested control> (eg Lables inside HBox, which are inturn
inside VBox which can have a> variety of different sibling controls)and
then send it to the print> to SUCCESSFULLY print, I would save a lotof
work and maintenance> issues in the long run.You can create it at
runtime. var myPrintableView =
PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, VBox, false);
myPrintableView.visible = false; var hbox =
myPrintableView.createChild(HBox, "", {}); var label1 =
hbox.createChild(Label, "", {text: "Address:"});... and so on.
Then you send 'myPrintableView' to printing.Manish
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