MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT Reference Manual page 592

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Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie as the print area for all
bmovie
printable frames in the movie. Assign a
want to use as the print area.
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Designates a composite of all of the bounding boxes of all the printable frames as the
bmax
print area. Specify
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Indicates that the bounding box of each printable frame should be used as the print
bframe
area for that frame. This changes the print area for each frame and scales the objects to fit the
print area. Use
to fill the printed page.
Returns
None.
Description
Function; prints the
( , , or
bmovie bmax
frame label to those frames. Although
#p
printAsBitmap()
color effects.
If you use
bmovie
print area is determined by the Stage size of the loaded movie. (The loaded movie does not inherit
the main movie's Stage size.)
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.
Example
The following example prints all of the printable frames in the movie clip
area defined by the bounding box of the frame with the
print(my_mc,"bmovie");
The following example prints all of the printable frames in
bounding box of each frame:
print(my_mc,"bframe");
See also
printAsBitmap()
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when the printable frames in your movie vary in size.
bmax
if you have objects of different sizes in each frame and want each object
bframe
movie clip according to the boundaries specified in the parameter
target
). If you want to print specific frames in the target movie clip, attach a
bframe
, it cannot be used to print movie clips that use alpha transparencies or special
for the
Bounding box
,
printAsBitmapNum()
frame label to the frame whose bounding box you
#b
results in higher quality prints than
print()
parameter but do not assign a
frame label attached:
#b
my_mc
, PrintJob class,
printNum()
label to a frame, the
#b
with the print
my_mc
with a print area defined by the