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Printing from the Flash Player context menu

You can use the Print command in the Flash Player context menu to print frames from any Flash movie.

The context menu's Print command cannot print transparency or color effects and cannot print frames from other movie clips; for these printing capabilities, use the Print action instead. See Adding a Print action.

To print movie frames using the Flash Player context menu Print command:

1 | Open the movie whose frames you will print.
| The command prints the frames labeled #b using the Stage for the print area or the specified bounding box. See Designating printable frames and Specifying a print area.
| If you haven't designated specific frames to print, all frames in the movie's main Timeline print.
2 | Choose File > Publish Preview > Default or press F12 to view your Flash movie in a browser.
3 | Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) in the Flash movie in the browser window to display the Flash Player context menu.
4 | Choose Print from the Flash Player context menu to display the Print dialog box.
5 | In Windows, choose the print range to select which frames to print:
| Choose All to print all frames in the movie if no frames are labeled.
| Choose Pages and enter a range to print the labeled frames in that range.
| Choose Selection to print the current frame.
6 | On the Macintosh, in the Print dialog box, select the pages to print:
| Choose All to print the current frame if no frames are labeled or to print all labeled frames.
| Choose From and enter a range to print the labeled frames in that range.
7 | Select other print options, according to your printer's properties.
8 | Click OK (Windows) or Print (Macintosh).