Flash AS3 Print Job Class PC Error

Posted: April 21st, 2009 | Author: Liza | Filed under: As3, Flash, Printing | Tags: , , , |

I had a nightmare week trying to figure this problem out.  Basically i was printing 4 pages from what appeared to be a really unstable xml file in a flash swf.  Initially I thought it might have been special characters in xml or a problem with the Print Job Class.

I had no idea why the print job class worked (for 3 pages or more) on a MAC and not a PC.  after investigation by a few of our developers it was kicking up an error about “Timing out”, and there was a pretty simple solution.

It was timing out because the script time limit was too short for a PC to process more than 3 pages at a time, so i increased the script time (in Publish Settings)  to 60 seconds and it worked.

Publish Settings

Nightmare Over

2 Comments on “Flash AS3 Print Job Class PC Error”

  1. 1 Daniel Wind said at 6:50 pm on July 30th, 2009:

    Liza,

    thanks for the information, really helpful…

  2. 2 Marvin de Bruin said at 8:39 am on September 21st, 2009:

    Well it is stated in the as3 help documentation that addPage requeres a 15 sec timeout period. So if you have like 4 pages you should keep in mind this will add up to (4*15sec) 1 minute. The wierd thing about your “problem” is that it did work on a mac…

    I had the same “problem” :)

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