Printing From The Flash Player Context Menu; Publishing A Document With Printable Frames - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

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
print()
"Using the print() function (when not using the PrintJob object)" on page
To print frames using the Flash Player context menu Print command:
Open the document with frames you want to print.
1.
The command prints the frames labeled #p using the Stage for the print area or the specified
bounding box.
If you haven't designated specific frames to print, all frames in the document main
Timeline print.
Select File > Publish Preview > Default or press F12 to view your Flash content in a browser.
2.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) in the Flash content in the browser
3.
window to display the Flash Player context menu.
Select Print from the Flash Player context menu to display the Print dialog box.
4.
In Windows, select the print range to select which frames to print:
5.
Select All to print all frames if no frames are labeled.
Select Pages and enter a range to print the labeled frames in that range.
Select Selection to print the current frame.
On the Macintosh, in the Print dialog box, select the pages to print:
6.
Select All to print the current frame if no frames are labeled or to print all labeled frames.
Select From and enter a range to print the labeled frames in that range.
Select other print options, according to your printer's properties.
7.
Click OK (Windows) or Print (Macintosh).
8.
Note: Printing from the context menu does not interact with calls to the PrintJob object.

Publishing a document with printable frames

You can publish a Flash document with printable frames to the web using the Publish command
to generate the necessary Flash HTML templates. For more information, see
documents" on page
Users must have Flash Player 4.0.25 (Windows) or 4.0.20 (Macintosh) or later to take advantage
of any print functionality you have added and to print the designated frames in Flash. You can set
up a detection scheme to check for the proper Flash Player version.
Note: When you use the PrintJob class, users must have Flash Player 7 or later.
function. See "Using the ActionScript PrintJob class" on page 376
311.
"Publishing Flash documents" on page
Publishing a document with printable frames
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"Publishing Flash
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