Using PrintJob in Flash with FireFox browser

[sherwoodclark]

I am using PrintJob to print a movieclip that is masked by another movieclip. I rotate the movieclip (and the mask) to get a landscape orientation when I print. Then I rotate it back. I move the content movieclip under the mask and print multiple pages using the PrintJob.addPage method. The script works just as I expect it to when the web page is viewed in Internet Explorer, but when I try it in Firefox, the page is printed with a black background.

Has anyone else had a similar experience. Any ideas what might be going on in Firefox?

Thanks

 

[billwatson]

make sure that you have printasbitmap set to true

myPrintJob_pj.addPage(0, {xMin:216, xMax:706, yMin:40, yMax:410},
{printAsBitmap:true});

 

[sherwoodclark]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I added {printAsBitMap:true} to and that didn't fix the problem. Here's some more info. The flash file containing the movieclip I want to print is on an HTML page enclosed in a <div> tag. If that is the only <div> I have on the HTML page, printing works fine in FireFox (It always works in IE6 and IE7). HOwever, if I add additional <div> tags, with style=visibility intially set to 'hidden', printing with PrintJob in FireFox includes the black background. The additional <div>'s contain popUp window content (flash content) made visible through javascript.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[sherwoodclark]

OKAY, I found the problem. I had the SWF file wmode set to 'transparent.' I had to set it to 'opaque' to get the printing to work as I would like. Everything works as I expect now in both FireFox and IE6-7