Comments on: Custom Printing with Flex, Part 2: Generating PDFs with AlivePDF

By: Kalen Gibbons

Kalen Gibbons — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:08:16 +0000

Anders,
No, as far as I know, there is no way to skip the PDF generation process and push directly to the printer.

By: Anders

Anders — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:13:09 +0000

Ok, here is an odd question but does anyone know if it’s possible to print the PDF that is generated with AlivePDF and AS3. I mean instead of writing the PDF to disc and then print it, is it possible to send it directly as a print job?

By: Kalen Gibbons

Kalen Gibbons — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:45:31 +0000

Chitra,
AlivePDF basically takes a screenshot of your application and uses that for the PDF. So if you (the user) cannot see part of your application or it’s data, then AlivePDF won’t be able to print it. If you have a large dataset that you’d like to print, I would suggest reading the next article in this series.

http://www.kalengibbons.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/custom-printing-with-flex-part-3-printing-data/

By: Chitra

Chitra — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:17:53 +0000

Hi Kalen,
Im using flexbuilder3.I have two vboxes in my application.Im trying to generate pdf from first Vbox which has a grid.It works fine with the visible data.But the problem is, it s not displaying all pages.Plz help me with tis problem.Im attaching my code with this.

import org.alivepdf.images.ResizeMode;
import mx.effects.Resize;
import org.alivepdf.fonts.Style;
import org.alivepdf.colors.RGBColor;
import org.alivepdf.fonts.FontFamily;
import mx.core.IFontContextComponent;
import org.alivepdf.saving.Method;
import org.alivepdf.layout.Layout;
import org.alivepdf.display.Display;
import org.alivepdf.layout.Size;
import org.alivepdf.layout.Unit;
import org.alivepdf.layout.Orientation;
import org.alivepdf.pdf.PDF;

import org.mart3.pdfGeneration.CreatePDF;

public function doGeneratePDF():void
{
var myPDF : PDF = new PDF ( Orientation.PORTRAIT, Unit.MM, Size.A4 );
myPDF.setDisplayMode( Display.FULL_PAGE, Layout.SINGLE_PAGE );

myPDF.addPage();
// add a background image

myPDF.addImage(idScreen1,0,0,0,0,”PNG”,100,1,ResizeMode.RESIZE_PAGE,BlendMode.NORMAL);
//myPDF.addImage (, 1 , null, null, false, ImageFormat.JPG, 100, 0, 0, 0, 0);

var f:FileStream = new FileStream();
var file:File = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath(“MyPDF.pdf”);
f.open(file, FileMode.WRITE);
var bytes : ByteArray = myPDF.save(Method.LOCAL);
f.writeBytes(bytes);
f.close();
}

By: J. Taniguchi

J. Taniguchi — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:38:35 +0000

Hi all,
Just got started with AlivePDF and I got stuck in less than 5 min.! (must be a WW record!)
I’m trying to set custom WIDTH x HEIGHT using Size() class. My code:

[code]
var customsize:Size = new Size([150,87], "custom", [150/25.4,87/25.4], [150,87]); // 150/25.4 = inches
var pdf:PDF = new PDF(Orientation.PORTRAIT,Unit.MM,customsize);
pdf.addPage();
pdf.save(Method.REMOTE,'lib/engine/display_pdf.php',Download.INLINE,_get_hash + '.pdf');
[/code]

I got the PDF on browser but it displays a wrong size (52,9X30,7 mm).
I’m sure I’m screwing something up here but I’m not sure exactly what….
Any help would be appreciated! (admin@beyondmaster.com)

Thanks!

By: Luis Mendez

Luis Mendez — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:09:03 +0000

i have a question…somebody could try this code but in asp ?? … i need it but in asp, if aby can help me please…

thanks in advance…

By: Kalen Gibbons

Kalen Gibbons — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:19:49 +0000

Check out the section “Save locally from Flash” in the next article in this series. It briefly demonstrates how to save your PDF locally without any server interaction.
http://www.kalengibbons.com/blog/index.php/tag/custom-printing-with-flex/

By: Dragos B

Dragos B — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:21:15 +0000

Your solution si great. However, when it comes to releasing an AIR standalone application, you must do all the job clientside. So, a solution that does’t include server scripts would be wonderful.

By: Umair Shahzad

Umair Shahzad — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:21:09 +0000

dear all,
i will be very thankfull to you, if any body can tell me how to use alivePDF with flash , starting from which release i should download from http://www.alivepdf.org and how to setup this with flash, please it very urgent if somebody can do it i will pay for it as a gift.

By: Kalen Gibbons

Kalen Gibbons — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:50:45 +0000

Hi Dan,
If the ColdFusion code displayed in the browser I would assume that you’re not running a ColdFusion server. Your web server needs to support ColdFusion for it to run.