Changing The Printed Background Color; Using Frame Labels To Disable Printing - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

Changing the printed background color

With Flash Player, you can print the background color set in the Document Properties dialog
box. You can change the background color for only the frames to be printed by placing a
colored object on the lowest layer of the Timeline being printed.
To change the printed background color:
1.
Place a filled shape that covers the Stage on the lowest layer of the Timeline that will print.
2.
Select the shape and select Modify > Document. Select a color for the printing background.
This changes the entire document's background color, including that of movie clips and
loaded movies.
3. Do one of the following:
To print that color as the document's background, make sure that the frame in which
you placed the shape is designated to print. For instructions, see
print" on page 542
object)" on page
To maintain a different background color for nonprinting frames, repeat steps 2 and 3.
Then place the shape on the lowest layer of the Timeline, in all the frames that are not
designated to print.

Using frame labels to disable printing

If you don't want any of the frames in the main Timeline to print, you can label a frame as !#p
to make the entire SWF file nonprintable. Labeling a frame as !#p dims the Print command
in the Flash Player context menu. You can also remove the Flash Player context menu.
If you disable printing from Flash Player, the user can still print frames using the browser
Print command. Because this command is a browser feature, you cannot control or disable it
using Flash.
or "Using the print() function (when not using the PrintJob
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