print()

Availability

Flash Player 4.20.

Note: If you are authoring for Flash Player 7 or later, you can create a PrintJob object, which gives you (and the user) more control over the printing process. For more information, see the PrintJob object entry.

Usage

print (target, "Bounding box")

Parameters

target The instance name of a movie clip to print. By default, all of the frames in the target instance print. If you want to print specific frames in the movie clip, assign a #p frame label to those frames.

Bounding box A modifier that sets the print area of the movie. Enclose this parameter in quotes. You can choose one of the following:

Returns

None.

Description

Action; prints the target movie clip according to the boundaries specified in the parameter (bmovie, bmax, or bframe). If you want to print specific frames in the target movie, attach a #P frame label to those frames. Although the print action results in higher quality prints than the printAsBitmap action, it cannot be used to print movies that use alpha transparencies or special color effects.

If you do not specify a print boundary parameter, the print area is determined by the Stage size of the loaded movie by default. The movie does not inherit the main movie's Stage size. You can control the print area by specifying the bmovie, bmax, or bframe parameters.

All of the printable elements in a movie must be fully loaded before printing can begin.

The Flash Player printing feature supports PostScript and non-PostScript printers. Non-PostScript printers convert vectors to bitmaps.

Example

The following example will print all of the printable frames in the movie clip my_mc with the print area defined by the bounding box of the frame with the #b frame label attached:

print(my_mc,"bmovie");

The following example will print all of the printable frames in my_mc with a print area defined by the bounding box of each frame:

print(my_mc,"bframe");

See also

printAsBitmap(), printAsBitmapNum(), PrintJob object, printNum()