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

printNum()

Availability
Flash Player 5.
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
entry.
Usage
printNum (level:Number, "Bounding box":String) : Void
Parameters
The level in Flash Player to print. By default, all the frames in the level print. If you want
level
to print specific frames in the level, assign a
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 level in Flash Player according to the boundaries specified in the
parameter (
box
"bmovie"
movie clip, attach a
quality prints than using
with alpha transparencies or special color effects.
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'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.
See also
,
print() printAsBitmap()
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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
, ,
"bmax" "bframe"
frame label to those frames. Although using
#p
printAsBitmapNum()
for the
Bounding box
,
printAsBitmapNum()
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frame label to those frames.
#p
frame label to the frame whose bounding box
#b
). If you want to print specific frames in the target
, you cannot use
parameter but do not assign a
, PrintJob class
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PrintJob class
Bounding
results in higher
printNum()
to print movies
printNum()
label to a frame, the
#b