Aral Balkan

After much, much hair pulling and many sleepless nights, I've come up with a way to print a TextArea component's contents correctly when they span more than a single page (ok, I did sleep but dreamt about it, ok?) [Sad note: This is true.]

It's definitely not a trivial affair my any means and I hope to write an article (chapter? BOOK?!) about it when I get some time.

Comments

• I'm interested in your methodology to solve this little quandry ... OK major quandry!
  
  The couple of viable solutions I've seen thus far involve reading the height of a dynamic text field inside a movie clip then creating an additional clip if a defined max height is encountered.
  
  Thx,
  Andrew

  by Andrew on 2005-07-28 17:19:16

• Hi mate, hi have the same problem with textarea: I can't print all the text containded in it. My nights are also sleepless... could you help me please ?
  
  Do you use the printJob function ?
  
  Thanks for your reply.

  by freedesign on 2005-10-09 17:52:20

• Hi freedesign,
  
  I'm afraid I never solved that one and, based on the amount of work I put in and the sheer number of variations I tried, I can pretty confidetly say that it cannot be done!

  by Aral Balkan on 2005-10-09 19:12:15

• if you know how to do it let the rest of us know. Bragging about it doesn't help me with the problem I have. Gar

  by Gar on 2006-06-22 22:18:35

• I posted a follow-up to this. Please use the search. It turned out to be incomplete and I concluded in that post that it was not possible to achieve this with the version of Flash I was using at the time. Sorry!

  by aral on 2006-06-23 07:31:53

• Can you please tell me how you solved it ? I am having the same problem... !

  by Houssam Zaza. on 2007-06-17 08:12:06

• Hi.. Can you please let me know the solution to this problem? Even I want to print the contents of the TextArea control. But I am facing lot of problems.. Thanks Rashmi

  by Rashmi on 2007-09-20 10:19:00

• I can print the contents of my textArea, but the problem is that the contents covers 60% of the PrintOut page.Please tell me how to cover the full page.

  by Preetam on 2008-08-27 14:54:56