Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: Handmade Flash2PDF

March 07, 2003

Handmade Flash2PDF

First of all: Kudos to Gregg Wygonik for his great Flash to PDF class! Check out his site dedicated to the subject: flash2PDF.com and do not miss his blog broadcast.artificialcolors.com.

There is one aspect in the latest Flash2PDF craze which I wonder why nobody has mentioned it yet: Flash has already a perfect PDF export class built into it and not only since MX. It is called print().

Yes, I know it is definitely not the same thing, especially if you want to produce downloadable PDFs on-the-fly, but if you are only interested in a way to export your flash data on your own machine you should really have a look at it.

Of course you will need an additional tool: a PDF printer driver. They come in two flavours, the commercial Adobe Acrobat version or the completely free way via Ghostscript. Unfortunately free means a little bit more hand work, but I managed to set the whole thing up in 15 Minutes. Plus now I can also export to EPS, JPEG and PNG.

I just found out that there is a little free tool that makes the whole installation even easier: PDF Ghoscript Tool by MAST. It looks like they have managed to assemble all the needed Parts on their site.

There are some other sources on how to install a free PDF printer driver: [1] [2] [3]

Posted at March 07, 2003 06:40 PM | Further reading

Comments

It can be done in a SWF than runs on Mac 9.x or MAC OSX?

Thank you

Posted by: Elies Xandri on May 24, 2004 07:30 PM

Dear Mario Klingemann,
Is possible to see whole working sorce for flash2pdf . Your published code at http://www.flash2pdf.com/help_related_2.html
looks good, but it does'nt work at my server.

it works till i want to save it, it's not possible. But if I just press open " test.pdf" then test.pdf is opening (file download window is opened twice)but when pdf file "test.pdf" is loading it's writing error that file is corupted or it was sent like attachment in email and it was not corectlly decoded.

would you be so kind and help me with that?

Posted by: jano on January 22, 2005 08:45 PM

Hi...

Can you please guide me how to export EPS from flash ?

I'm also trying to insert a loaded image file in PDF.. :S.,.. but still cant get it done..

any suggestions.. ?

Posted by: Faheem on February 9, 2005 10:57 PM


	« New Flash Player 6,0,79,0 \| Home \| Polynomial Curve Fitting » March 07, 2003 Handmade Flash2PDF First of all: Kudos to Gregg Wygonik for his great Flash to PDF class! Check out his site dedicated to the subject: flash2PDF.com and do not miss his blog broadcast.artificialcolors.com. There is one aspect in the latest Flash2PDF craze which I wonder why nobody has mentioned it yet: Flash has already a perfect PDF export class built into it and not only since MX. It is called print(). Yes, I know it is definitely not the same thing, especially if you want to produce downloadable PDFs on-the-fly, but if you are only interested in a way to export your flash data on your own machine you should really have a look at it. Of course you will need an additional tool: a PDF printer driver. They come in two flavours, the commercial Adobe Acrobat version or the completely free way via Ghostscript. Unfortunately free means a little bit more hand work, but I managed to set the whole thing up in 15 Minutes. Plus now I can also export to EPS, JPEG and PNG. I just found out that there is a little free tool that makes the whole installation even easier: PDF Ghoscript Tool by MAST. It looks like they have managed to assemble all the needed Parts on their site. There are some other sources on how to install a free PDF printer driver: [1] [2] [3] Posted at March 07, 2003 06:40 PM \| Further reading Comments It can be done in a SWF than runs on Mac 9.x or MAC OSX? Thank you Posted by: Elies Xandri on May 24, 2004 07:30 PM Dear Mario Klingemann, Is possible to see whole working sorce for flash2pdf . Your published code at http://www.flash2pdf.com/help_related_2.html looks good, but it does'nt work at my server. it works till i want to save it, it's not possible. But if I just press open " test.pdf" then test.pdf is opening (file download window is opened twice)but when pdf file "test.pdf" is loading it's writing error that file is corupted or it was sent like attachment in email and it was not corectlly decoded. would you be so kind and help me with that? Posted by: jano on January 22, 2005 08:45 PM Hi... Can you please guide me how to export EPS from flash ? I'm also trying to insert a loaded image file in PDF.. :S.,.. but still cant get it done.. any suggestions.. ? Posted by: Faheem on February 9, 2005 10:57 PM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Comments: Remember info?
Site Search Google quasimondo.com incubator.quasimondo.com lectures.quasimondo.com Best Of Quasimondo The Stake Picturedisko Islands Of Consciousness Flickeur Clockr Tagnautica Kaleidoscope Realtime Video Color Keying Flash 8 ColorMatrix Class Flash 8 BitmapExporter Marching Ants Path Marching Ants Rectangle Full Justified Text Component swfImageProxy xml2swf Amazon Explorer [FF Trailer] AS Shape Decoder Voronoi Diagram Worldmap Locator Page Turn Interface Google Search Widget WACK LOCOMA The Candle The Candle II The Flash Connection The Flash Connection II The J.H. Lynch Mystery The Crying Boy Categories Home Concentration Hydration Incubation Information Inspiration Manipulation Observation Occupation Publication Relevation Transformation Vibration Visualization Upcoming Events Links of Interest		Most Visited Entries Page Flip: The Final Word Flash BitmapExporter: Compress and Save Images Flash 8: ColorMatrix Page Turn Sourcecode Saving JPEGs or PNGs with Flash 8 Revisited Flash 8: Aqua Glass Effect Happy New Year Flash Files? ColorMatrix Class for AS3 How to Enable MP3 Ringtones on a Sony Ericsson v800 Flash 8: Kaleidoscope Experiments The Incubator Lectures Upcoming Conferences: Flash on Tap, Boston Flash On The Beach 2008, Brighton singularity, The Internet Adobe MAX, San Francisco My Past Lectures Contact Questions and Freelance Info Backlog July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 February 2008 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 December 2006 November 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 In Love with Jasmine T. Powered by Movable Type 2.661 © Copyright Mario Klingemann Syndicate this site: RSS 1.0 - RSS 2.0 Quasimondo @ flickr Quasimondo @ LinkedIn Quasimondo @ Twitter Quasimondo @ Pownce Quasimondo @ Facebook Quasimondo @ MySpace Quasimondo is a Bright Citizen of the TRansnational Republic My other blog in german Related Tags Impressum