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mythicwave
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December 22, 2010
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Questions from a newbie

  • December 22, 2010
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I'm looking at TLF to replace our Director functionality.  I'm impressed by TLF's layout abilities but have a few questions related to printing, etc:

- How robust is the printing capability?  For example, would it be easy to scale a single page to print "poster size" on four pages?  Would I also be able to easily reduce the size on printing?  Note that I'm looking for built in functions apart from what is available in the print driver.

- Is the printing vector based or is everything rasterized before sending it to the printer?  What about postscript printing?

- How robust is the mouse handling?  For example, would it be easy to get the click location as an (x, y) coordinate and as a (column, line)?

Thanks in advance,

Brian

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mythicwaveAuthor
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December 22, 2010

One more question...

What about printing to a PDF?  I'd investigated Alive PDF before and that seemed to work in Flex.  But is there a different technology available or built into TLF?

Thanks,

Brian

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robin_briggs
Adobe Employee
January 4, 2011

There are no special facilities for making a PDF. Printing works the same way for TLF as for any other Flash content. I'd suggest trying it out.

Given an (x,y) coordinate, it is possible to find the corresponding location in the text. The API for that is a tlf_internal function in the SelectionManager class.

Hope this helps,

- robin

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mythicwaveAuthor
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January 4, 2011

Thanks.  This helps.  Any comments about my other two questions (below)?

- How robust is the printing capability?  For example, would it be  easy to scale a single page to print "poster size" on four pages?  Would  I also be able to easily reduce the size on printing?  Note that I'm  looking for built in functions apart from what is available in the print  driver.

- Is the printing vector based or is everything rasterized before sending it to the printer?  What about postscript printing?

-- Brian

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