AIR & PrintingAIR 2, AlivePDF and PurePDF:everything you need in your RIA or desktop apps

Luca MezzaliraACE and ACI on Flash, Flex with AIR and Flash Lite

Mart3 owner and Flash Platform Developer

Adobe Italy Consultant

Teacher, Writer, Adobe supporter!

Luca MezzaliraACE and ACI on Flash, Flex with AIR and Flash Lite

Mart3 owner and Flash Platform Developer

Adobe Italy Consultant

Teacher, Writer, Adobe supporter!

Oh, yes! I forget! I’m Chewbacca also!

Save timewhen someone ask me to print a report in my RIA or Desktop App

Agenda. Printing with Flash and Flex

. AIR 2 new features

. AIR 2 and PrintJob

. AlivePDF

. PurePDF

. Questions & Answear

When do you use PRINTING API?. to print a report

. to print a form (invoice, receipt, ...)

. to print an artwork

. to prepare a PDF for typography (REMEMBER that

WE HAVE TLF)

Printing in Flash. PrintJob class

. OS Dialog box to interact with printer

. problem to create complex documents

. problem to manage more than 1 page

. problem to print big images

. not easy to work with dynamic data

Printing with Flex. FlexPrintJob to print Flex objects

. PrintAdvancedDataGrid

. PrintDataGrid

. PrintOLAPDataGrid

FlexPrintJobvar printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();

printJob.start();

printJob.addObject(myObject, FlexPrintJobScaleType.MATCH_WIDTH);

printJob.send();

When you call start() method Flash Player or AIR:

1. give a feedback from user’s choice (true/false)

2. retrieve page dimension from Printer

Each object added with addObject method will be

print in a different page

PrintDataGrid//thePrintView is a custom component with PrintDataGrid componentprintJob.addObject(thePrintView);while (thePrintView.myDataGrid.validNextPage) { thePrintView.myDataGrid.nextPage(); printJob.addObject(thePrintView);}

With PrintDataGrid component you can manage

rows to print in many pages

...now the PRESENT

this is the past...

AIR 2 new featuresMultitouch API ( do you know Steve!? )

Microphone data access

Open documents with user’s default application

UDP Socket

Socket Server (this feature ROCKS!)

Screen reader support

File promises

Mass storage device detection

Printing API ( :D )

... and so on ...

AIR Printing API. pixelsPerInch -> resolution to use for Bitmap

. printer -> set Printer

. printers -> Vector.<String> with all printers installed

. copies -> number of copies to print

. selectePaperSize() -> choose your page size

. start2() -> start a print with new API

. terminate() -> reset PrintJob object if you need it

AIR Printing APIPrintMethod: . AUTO -> Automatic selection of best method of printing . VECTOR -> ehm... maybe print with Vector method? . BITMAP -> mumble, mumble... DOH!

PrintIUIOptions -> need to manage Print Dialog Box

Everything you need it’s Language Reference!!!

AlivePDFAS3 PDF library

you can use online and offline

you don’t need any serverside script

AlivePDF works with: Images, EPS files,

Vectors, Embedded Fonts...

You can add in your PDF: links, transitions,

PDF settings,...

THANK YOU MATE!

AlivePDFSteps to work with AlivePDF API:

1. create a PDF object

2. addPage()

3. add content (images, text, eps...)

3a. (Optional) setting your PDF...

4. save it with FileReference or FileStream

AlivePDF - case historyMy client ask me to create a comic creator that

runs on Mac and PC without installation

What do I need ???Flash + Zinc + AlivePDF

PurePDFIt’s a very powerful PDF library made by Sephiroth

http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2010/02/

purepdf_a_complete_actionscript_pdf_l.php

PurePDF has tons of cool features:

. barcode generator

. multi column

. embedded movies

. metadata, page headers, page footers

. vertical text

. javascript

... and so on

PurePDFThis library is targeted for Flash Player 10

For any help, doubt or more use PurePDF list:

http://code.google.com/p/purepdf/issues/list

Sepy and his team is working on this open-source as3 libs so in

the next future will see new amazing functionalities!!!

ResourcesALIVEpdf

http://code.google.com/p/alivepdf/

PUREpdf

http://code.google.com/p/purepdf/

FlexReport

http://flexreport.riaforge.org/

Finally...

my “thoughts” about Flash Platform attack:

HTML 5, Apple and so on!

my “thoughts” about Flash Platform attack:

HTML 5, Apple and so on!

my “thoughts” about Flash Platform attack:

NOOOP, Design Patterns, workflow, TLF, real multiple screen deployment...

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to lose your time with this cool shit!