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ActionScript 2.0's new PrintJob class allows you to add robust printing support to your Flash-based Web applications. Learn how to use this new feature—along with a code design that allows on-the-fly interface assembly on any movie clip.
by Eric Jansson
February 22, 2005
t is no longer neccessary to creatively twist and bend Flash's printing APIs to perform the more complex printing tasks like multi-page printing. Thanks to ActionScript 2.0 and Flash Player 7, you now have direct access to a rich set of print functionality. This article explores these powerful new functions and discusses how to structure application code to take full advantage of them.
This previous article, discussing Flash Player 5, outlined a set of code strategies for printing in Flash and those techniques have aged well. Reading the previous article isn't a prerequisite, but it's not a bad idea, as this article uses the same design strategy to organize application code in a manner that makes printing even simpler and the code even more maintainable.
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t is no longer neccessary to creatively twist and bend Flash's printing APIs to perform the more complex printing tasks like multi-page printing. Thanks to ActionScript 2.0 and Flash Player 7, you now have direct access to a rich set of print functionality. This article explores these powerful new functions and discusses how to structure application code to take full advantage of them.
