printing multipage text with the print command - possible?

[nothofagus webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi - I've been experimenting with using the Flash print command to print a text member from within director (passing the html as a variable and then resizing the corresponding textField in Flash to accommodate the text) - so far so good. The problem is that I generally end up with enough text to fill several pages but Flash seems to always cram the print output into a single page (with the size of that page defined in in page setup dialog). Is there any way other than manually(/dynamically) breaking the text up into page sized chunks and spreading them across a number of textFields in the Flash sprite/movie and printing them as separate pages to force the single textField to print across multiple pages?

I know I can use PrintOMatic but I'd prefer a non-xtra solution if at all possible.

Cheers,

Terry...


Dr Terry Judd
Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design)
Biomedical Multimedia Unit
The University of Melbourne
Australia

[Andrew Morton]

You could save the html to the user's temp folder and print the .html file with
e.g. fileXtra4 or buddyAPI. That way, the user's browser gets to do the page
layout and printing.

Andrew