During AnyGantt development, we have discovered a bug in the latest builds of Flash Player (existing since August 2010).

Here is a Flex example from the Adobe Help Resource Center:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=printing_5.html

That’s how everything looks like in the original:

And that’s what happens to it after printing:

A long and persistent debugging has led us to isolating and reproducing the bug. In the simplest view, everything comes down to the following pictures:

(an original)

(the same after printing)

The source code of the example can be downloaded from:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/attachment/68017/test_02_project_src.zip

The cause of the problem is the following: if the text in the Visual Objects tree has a parent object with “scrollRect”, there will be problems when printing to a bitmap.

The bug appeared supposedly in the version 10.1.82.76 of Adobe Flash Player, and it is also found in the current version (10.2).

We have submitted a bug report and now are waiting for the response:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-6167

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 at 6:47 am by Margaret Skomorokh and is filed under Flash platform. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.