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

printAsBitmap()

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
printAsBitmap(target:Object, "Bounding box":String) : Void
Parameters
The instance name of the movie clip to print. By default, all the frames in the movie
target
clip are printed. If you want to print specific frames in the movie clip, attach a
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 the
•
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
Nothing.
Description
Function; prints the
parameter (
bmovie
frames with objects that use transparency or color effects. The
the highest available resolution of the printer in order to maintain as much definition and quality
as possible.
If your movie clip does not contain alpha transparencies or color effects, Macromedia
recommends that you use
If you use
bmovie
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.
A modifier that sets the print area of the movie clip. Enclose this parameter in
parameter when the printable frames in your movie clip vary in size.
bmax
if you have objects of different sizes in each frame and want each object
bframe
movie clip as a bitmap according to the boundaries specified in the
target
, , or ). Use
bmax bframe
print() for better quality results.
for the
Bounding box
ActionScript Language Reference
frame label to the frame whose bounding box
#b
printAsBitmap()
printAsBitmap()
parameter but do not assign a
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frame label to
#p
to print movie clips that contain
action prints at
label to a frame, the
#b
printAsBitmap()
PrintJob
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