Print Dynamic Content with printJob

Question

I recently developed a help resource application that builds
the interface and loads all the main and sub navigation items,
pages contents, and related resources dynamically. This was to make
it easy to provide search and print functionality, as well as
interface scalability. Therefore my print feature creates a print
layout MovieClip (so as to format well for 8.5 x 11 and printer
margins) and loads the appropriate text content related to the
visible page on screen when the print button is pressed.
I thought the print was all set to go, but what I found out
is that once you print a page of the Help Resource application that
same page prints in place of any other page you print from there on
out.
My print button calls a function that pulls all the
appropriate dynamic data (page title, page contents, related
resource names, etc.) and formats it as HTML and adds it to my
print layout MovieClips text field (docPrint._txt).
That function then calls my printJob function which creates a
blank sprite, adds my print layout movieclip to that sprite,
resizes the print layout MovieClip’s text field to fit
appropriately within the printer margins and prints the file.
Anyone have any ideas why my dynamic content prints as the
same page each time? Note that if I trace the contents of my text
field for my print layout MovieClip the contents change each time,
but the print stays the same.
Sorry for the long post and huge thanks to anyone who may
have an answer.
Have a great day!

Answer 1

I am responding to my own post as I found a solution, though
I am now about bald from pulling all my hair out. Hopefully this
helps even one random soul in the future as the printJob class
seems to be one of the hardest to get help with or find information
online that pertains.
My code dynamically creates print page contents based on the
on screen contents the user is currently viewing within my
application. My print functions were always printing the first page
that was printed no matter what page within the application the
user was viewing.
As I have learned to do, I was declaring the variables for my
print objects in the root of my actionScript (outside all the
functions so they could be accessed across functions).
I had two variables:
var docPrint:document = new document(); // A MovieClip layout
for my print page located in my library
var printPage:Sprite = new Sprite(); // The Sprite to hold my
MovieClip for print purposes as a sprite is required
I also had two functions:
docContentsLoad(); // Loaded contents into docPrint Movieclip
and formatted
printJob(); // Created print job, adjusted docPrint for
printer settings, and sent print
It turns out the easiest solution was to combine my two
functions into one printJob function and place my two variables
(docPrint & printPage) at the beginning of the function. Now
the printing works fine everytime. No more repeat pages.
My assumption is that the only way to truly reset the print
document is to delcare the variables within the function being
called to print the document so that they are redeclared each
time.