Help printing textarea

Question

Hello,
I have problem printing textarea when sending it to print job and here my code:
<mx:TextArea id="mainTextField" styleName="letterTextArea" wordWrap="true" x="46" y="38" width="666" height="389" horizontalScrollPolicy="off"/>
private function printLetter():void
                var printJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
                printJob.copies = 1;
                printJob.orientation = PrintJobOrientation.PORTRAIT;
                //var rect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0,0,800,600);
                printJob.start();
                try
                    printJob.addPage(mainTextField);
                    printJob.send();
                catch(err:Error)
                    //Alert.show("Error printing letter: "+err);
...the only printed in the printer is the visible part of textarea. How can I print the entire text? any idea?
thanks a lot.
cheers.

Answer 1

I finally got it to work like this:
var tmpBox:Text = new Text();
                tmpBox.setStyle("paddingTop",50);
                tmpBox.setStyle("paddingLeft",50);
                tmpBox.setStyle("paddingRight",50);
                addChild(tmpBox);
                tmpBox.width = printJob.pageWidth;
                tmpBox.height = printJob.pageHeight;
                tmpBox.text = mainTextField.text;
the problem is there is always a blue/light blue backgrounnd. how can remove that background? i already use css but no luck at all...any idea on how to do this?
thanks a lot.
cheers.