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Preparing movies for printing

To set up printing from the Flash Player, you can specify which frames to print and set their print area. To best control what users can print, keep the following in mind as you set up movies and movie clips for printing:

| Adjust the page layout in any frames that you'll designate as printable to match the desired printed output. Using the Flash Player, you can print all shapes, symbols, bitmaps, text blocks, and text fields. Levels in a Flash movie are not composited on print output.
| The Flash Player printer driver uses the HTML settings for dimension, scale, and alignment in the Publish Settings dialog box. Use these settings to control the print layout.
| The selected frames print as they appear in the movie clip symbol. You can let users print a movie clip that is not visible in a browser by setting the movie clip's `_visible` property to `false` using the Actions panel. Changing the property of a movie clip with the Set Property action, tweening, or any transformation tool does not affect how a movie clip prints.
| For a movie clip to be printable, it must be on the Stage or work area and it must be given an instance name.
| All elements must be fully loaded to print. You can use the`_framesloaded` property to check whether the printable content is loaded. For more information, see this term in the online ActionScript Dictionary in the Help menu.