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.
print (target
, "Bounding box
")
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:
bmovie
Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie as the print area for all printable frames in the movie. Assign a #b
frame label to the frame whose bounding box you want to use as the print area. bmax
Designates a composite of all of the bounding boxes of all the printable frames as the print area. Specify the bmax
parameter when the printable frames in your movie vary in size. bframe
Designates that the bounding box of each printable frame be used as the print area for that frame. This changes the print area for each frame and scales the objects to fit the print area. Use bframe
if you have objects of different sizes in each frame and want each object to fill the printed page.None.
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.
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");
printAsBitmap()
, printAsBitmapNum()
,
PrintJob object, printNum()