Creating Printable Movies > Creating printable movies overview
Creating printable movies overviewOnce you have set up interactivity in your Flash movie, you can set certain frames in the movie to be printable so that users can print them with the Flash Player. You can use the Flash Player printing feature to print catalogs, coupons, information sheets, receipts, invoices, or other documents in your Flash movies.
The Flash Player prints Flash content as vector graphics at the high resolutions available from printers and other output devices. Printing as vector graphics scales Flash artwork so that it prints clearly at any size without the pixelated effects that can occur when printing low-resolution bitmap images.
Printing movies from the Flash Player instead of from the browser gives Flash authors several advantages. You can do the following:
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Specify which frames in a Flash movie can be printed. This lets you create layouts appropriate to printing and protect material from unauthorized printing. |
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Determine the print area of frames. |
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Specify whether frames are printed as vectors (to take advantage of higher resolutions) or as bitmaps (to preserve transparency and color effects). |
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Assign Print actions to print frames from movie clips, even if the movie clips are not visible. This lets you provide printable material without using valuable browser space. |