Print() - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

print()

Availability
Flash Player 4 (4.0.20.0)
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
class entry.
Usage
print(target:Object, "Bounding box":String) : Void
Parameters
The instance name of a movie clip to print. By default, all the frames in the target
target
instance can be printed. If you want to print specific frames in the movie clip, assign a
label to those frames.
Bounding box
quotation marks (" or '), and specify one of the following values:
•
Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie clip as the print area for
bmovie
all printable frames in the movie clip. Assign a
you want to use as the print area.
•
Designates a composite of all the bounding boxes of all the printable frames as the print
bmax
area. Specify
bmax
•
Indicates that the bounding box of each printable frame should be used as the print
bframe
area for that frame, which 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
the print area is determined by the Stage size of the loaded movie clip. (The loaded movie clip
does not inherit the main movie clip's Stage size.)
All the printable elements in a movie clip 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.
A modifier that sets the print area of the movie clip. Enclose this parameter in
when the printable frames in your movie clip vary in size.
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
ActionScript Language Reference
frame label to the frame whose bounding box
#b
results in higher quality prints than
print()
parameter but do not assign a
CHAPTER 2
PrintJob
frame
#p
label to a frame,
#b
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