convert Sprite and its children in to bitmap for print

Your task is not for beginners :)

Any way you can control size of your bitmap data by using BitmapData class

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/BitmapData.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Working_with_Bitmaps_07.html

Also you can merge images when you are using multiple SNAPSHOT option

The following example creates two BitmapData objects. Both are 100 x 80 pixels in size. The first is filled with green and the second is filled with red. The code calls the merge() method, merging the second BitmapData pixels into the first BitmapData object, but only on a specified rectangular area:

import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.geom.Point;

var bmd1:BitmapData = new BitmapData(100, 80, true, 0xFF00FF00);
var bmd2:BitmapData = new BitmapData(100, 80, true, 0xFFFF0000);
var rect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, 20, 20);
var pt:Point = new Point(20, 20);
var mult:uint = 0x80; // 50%
bmd1.merge(bmd2, rect, pt, mult, mult, mult, mult);

var bm1:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd1);
addChild(bm1);
var bm2:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd2);
addChild(bm2);
bm2.x = 110;

thanks for reply dgofman

ya actually i tried this thing.i add with for loop and also for specifying margins between sprite.But when i print them they didn't appear as they look on screen.

for explaining things: Like i am drawing a rectangle element with boarder around it and then when i go for multi print on some boarder comes right and for some it vanished from left side or from rightside.

i searched over net ..............there i find that snapshot draw bitmap in low dpi ...so i was thinking that may be the problem.??

PLease can you attach your sample I will review and fix it

Ya Sure....i can let you see wat happening in my application.

plz look for demo http://demo.b24solutions.com/flex/adobeflex/planetLabel.html.....there you will find print section on single label mode.then you can see what i want to say....

Plz delete  ".....there"  from above url

original one is

http://demo.b24solutions.com/flex/adobeflex/planetLabel.html

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Can you give me steps for reporoducing your problem?

Did you try to use http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/ its very good quality of SNAPHOTS images

actaully i am using this currently..

ok here are steps

login with the user name and password ..........
 1>select first option that is used default templates.
     click continue
2> select page size rectangle 11X8.5
    click continue
3> select single mode.

4> draw anything so you can chk

now click on print.........select print preciew then you will see the problem

hoping for quick reply

So, you want a single image print (one page) am I right\?

Ya as you see there is difference between images .....i don't know why this hapeening.

if(templateHeight == templateWidth)
                  {
                        if(HOL)
                        {
                              for(var j:Number = 0;j< WCount ; j++)
                              {
                                    for(var i:Number = 0;i< HCount ; i++)
                                    {
                                          backgroundLayer.graphics.beginFill(shapeColor,1);
                                          backgroundLayer.graphics.moveTo(tempMarginH,tempMarginV);
                                          backgroundLayer.graphics.drawRoundRect(backX+tempMarginH,backY+tempMarginV,recV,recH,actualRadius);
                                          addElementToo(tempMarginH,tempMarginV);
                                          backgroundLayer.graphics.endFill();
                                          tempMarginH = marginH + tempMarginH + recV;      
                                    }
                                    tempMarginV = marginV + tempMarginV + recH;
                                    tempMarginH = marginH;
                              }
                        }
}

here backgroundLayer work as a final view of design (when single label mode converted to multiple mode)
here is the code for addelementtoo()

var bitmapData:BitmapData = ImageSnapshot.captureBitmapData(layerContainer);
                              var matrix:Matrix = new Matrix();
                              matrix.transformPoint(new Point(bitmapData.width/2,bitmapData.height/2));
                              matrix.scale(1/WCount,1/HCount);
                              var bitmapDat:BitmapData = ImageSnapshot.captureBitmapData(layerContainer,matrix);
                              var bitmap:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bitmapDat,PixelSnapping.ALWAYS,true);                        
                              backgroundLayer.addChild(bitmap);

now this final backgroundLayer is send to alivepdf where it is converted as pdf and shown for print.

plz help......i have no idea what i was doing wrong here

anyOne Plz Help me out......Thanks in advance

Thanks for help....this really helps but i have to use bitmap api as my application have masking on labels and i have to prit only label no additional things.

this is the client requirement.......earlier i was trying snapshot .......but now i am using bitmap draw method it gives me pleasing result not accurate though........working on this .............