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Printable movies overview

Once you have completed the contents of your Macromedia Flash MX movie, you can specify that certain frames be printable with the Flash Player. You can use the Flash Player printing feature to allow users to print catalogs, coupons, information sheets, receipts, invoices, or other documents in your Flash movies.

With the Flash Player, you can print Flash content as vector graphics at the high resolutions available from printers and other output devices. Printing content as vector graphics scales Flash artwork so that it prints clearly at any size without the pixelated effects that can occur when printing low-resolution bitmap images.

Printing movies from the Flash Player instead of from the browser gives Flash authors several advantages. You can do the following:

| Specify which frames in a Flash movie can be printed. This lets you design pages with layouts appropriate for printing and protect material from unauthorized printing.
| Determine the print area of frames. For example, if the printable material takes up only a portion of the frame, you can designate only that area of the frame as printable.
| Specify whether frames are printed as vectors (to take advantage of higher resolutions) or as bitmaps (to preserve transparency and color effects).
| Assign Print actions to print frames from movie clips, even if the movie clips are not visible. This lets you provide printable material without using valuable browser space.