Dynamic text field placement in printable MC 1

[frozenpeas]

Hey,

I have an MC that is printable - it contains dynamic text fields.

When it is printed, the position of the text fields is all screwballed. Their alignment to one another is fine but they are placed severely to the right and up.

If I reposition them in the authoring environment, say down and to the left, the dimensions of the printed MC get all fudged. It seems to recognize that the fields are there, and scales everything to fit on the page. But the text is still up and to the right of where I placed it. So the text is visible but everything is scaled smaller and misaligned because it is still seeing the text fields in that spot (but not displaying them there).

How confusing is this explanation?

Any ideas? Has anyone had this problem before?

Thanks.

frozenpeas

 

[billwatson]

printing dynamic text can be a bit if a pain sometimes

id start by right clicking the swf where the printable bit is...select print from the menu, and see how that comes out

finding the problem may turn out to a process of elimation

if it prints ok from the menu then try setting a bounding box for the printable content leaving enough space for printer margins

 

[frozenpeas]

That won't work for my purposes. I need it to print only that MC...

frozenpeas

 

[billwatson]

sounds silly but maybe giving the textfield a border will help

other thought...is the printable clip inside another clip

 

[frozenpeas]

The texfields have borders.

Yes, the printable clip is inside another.

frozenpeas

 

[billwatson]

then is it a targeting problem ?

often works much better if you target up one level

eg _root.mc.printmc

often better as _root.mc

 

[billwatson]

if that dont work then all i can suggest is what i do which is to have a separate printing area well off stage which duplicates what the use can see target and print that.

at least i know that works.

 

[frozenpeas]

It is not a targeting problem because the MC and its dynamic text contents are printing.

The problem is with the alignment of the dynamic text fields.

frozenpeas

 

[billwatson]

i said targeting problem for that reason.....because it was skewed...as if it were taking another clips alignment


best hope probably is that someone else has had this problem and posts their fix...i am all out of ideas

 

[frozenpeas]

Aye... thanks for trying. This is a frustrating one.

Anyone?

frozenpeas

 

[frozenpeas]

It seems the problem lies in that MC being nested inside another MC.

So I am doing what you suggested, Bill, and keeping a copy of the form off the stage.

That copy prints just fine.

Thanks for your help.

frozenpeas

 

[billwatson]

thats what i always do for printing...no hassle that way