To disable printing in the Flash Player context menu by dimming the
Print command:
1.
Open or make active the Flash document (FLA file) that you want to publish.
2.
Select the first keyframe in the main Timeline.
3.
Select Window > Properties to view the Property inspector.
4.
In the Property inspector, for Label enter !#p to specify the frame as nonprinting.
You need to specify only one !#p label to dim the Print command in the context menu.
You can also select a blank frame (rather than a keyframe) and label it #p.
To disable printing by removing the Flash Player context menu:
1.
Open or make active the Flash document (FLA file) that you want to publish.
2.
Select File > Publish Settings.
3.
Select the HTML tab and deselect Display Menu.
4.
Click OK.
For more information on publishing options, see
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 SWF file.
The context menu's Print command cannot print transparency or color effects and cannot
print frames from other movie clips; for more sophisticated printing capabilities, use the
PrintJob object or the
on page 537
and
"Using the print() function (when not using the PrintJob object)"
on page
546.
548
Printing from SWF Files
function. See
print()
"Publishing Flash documents" on page
"Using the ActionScript PrintJob class"
459.
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