1019 Chapter 31: Printing Many Adobe® Flex® applications let users print from within the application. For example, you might have an appli- cation that returns confirmation information after a user completes a purchase. Your application can allow users to print the information on the page to keep for their records. Note: You can also print by using the context menu in Adobe® Flash® Player 9, or the Flash ActionScript PrintJob class, which is documented in the ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference . Topics About printing by using Flex classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1019 Using the FlexPrintJob class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020 Using a print-specific output format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1024 Printing multipage output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1028 About printing by using Flex classes The Flex mx.printing package contains classes that facilitate the creation of printing output from Flex applica- tions: FlexPrintJob A class that prints one or more objects. Automatically splits large objects for printing on multiple pages and scales the output to fit the page size. PrintDataGrid A subclass of the DataGrid control with a default appearance that is customized for printing. The class includes properties and a method that provide additional sizing and printing features. PrintAdvancedDataGrid A subclass of the AdvancedDataGrid control with a default appearance that is customized for printing. The class includes properties and a method that provide additional sizing and printing features. PrintOLAPDataGrid A subclass of the OLAPDataGrid control with a default appearance that is customized for printing. The class includes properties and a method that provide additional sizing and printing features. Defines constants used in the FlexPrintJob addObject() method. FlexPrintJobScaleType Together, these classes give you control over how the user prints information from the application. For example, your application can print only a selected subset of the information on the screen, or it can print information that is not being displayed. Also, your application can reformat the information and optimize its layout and appearance for printing.