Printing in landscape from Flash

Flash developer Steven Sacks has code available on his site that allows you to print a .swf file in landscape format.  If the printer is set to portrait, Sasks’ code changes the orientation of the movieclip and adjusts the width to take up the space available on the page.  http://www.stevensacks.net/2007/03/16/force-landscape-printing-with-printjob

It’s a nice solution for printing out a certificate of completion, and it works even if you export it to Captivate.  But if you plan to use dynamic or input text in your movie clip (to store the learner’s name, for instance), there’s one more thing to remember:  Whenever you change the orientation of a text box, you need to embed the fonts used in that box, or the text won’t display. 

To embed a font, just click on the text box and then click the Embed button on the properties toolbar.  Select the characters you want to embed, and you’re ready to go.

Writing an e-learning proposal?

We’re all familiar with the problems that can arise getting projects done on-time and on-budget.  Besides managing our own teams, and our own time, as e-Learning providers we can also find ourselves dealing with delays in getting feedback and repeated requests for add-ons without an accompanying increase in the schedule or the budget.

For anyone who has had these frustrations in managing a project, Kevin Kruse’s white paper, Managing e-Learning: A Beginner’s Guide to Harmonious Buyer-Supplier Relationships, is a great place to start building strategies to manage everyone’s expectations of what the project will accomplish. 

And for those of us who are part of smaller, in-house e-Learning operations, it’s a window into what kind of information really belongs in a formal proposal and project plan.

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