Re: FLASH: Flash Player Printing

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Jeff,

 

> Has anyone on the list had much experience with the new print features

> in the flash plug-in?


Some yes. It's now working like a charm with all the printers I can

throw at it.

 


> ... soon dampened as I tried to print two examples from their site

> (Macromedia's and HP's banner ads ). Working online they seemed to crash

> the system (Win '98/IE 4.7.2/Flash Plug-in 4.0.25)...

> ... printing locally (HP Laserjet 8000 PS) from the example did work

> - but at about 10 mins. per page!!! ...

> Is this normal? If so, it's a great idea but totally impractical - can

> we expect an improvement soon?


Quoting from Flashprint.pdf :

'Flash Player converts scalable graphics to PostScript before printing.

Converting to PostScript causes the print file size to be much larger

than the size of the Flash movie in the browser. Print file size affects

memory

requirements and network demands, when applicable. On the Macintosh or

in Windows you can approximate the PostScript file size by exporting the

movie from Flash, Freehand, or Adobe Illustrator as an EPS file and

checking the file size of the printable frame.'


So to answer your question and noticing you printed to a PS printer, yes

it is normal. For example the Detection Example printed to Distiller

under my default settings produced a 2,784KB file in a bit less that 80

seconds.



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