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print

Syntax

print (target, "bmovie");
print (target, "bmax");
print (target, "bframe");

Arguments

target The instance name of movie clip to print. By default, all of the frames in the movie are printed. If you want to print only specific frames in the movie, designate frames for printing by attaching a #P frame label to those frames in the authoring environment.

bmovie Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie as the print area for all printable frames in the movie. Attach a #b label (in the authoring environment) to designate the frame whose bounding box you want to use as the print area.

bmax Designates a composite of all of the bounding boxes, of all the printable frames, as the print area. Specify the bmax argument when the printable frames in your movie vary in size.

bframe Designates that the bounding box of each printable frame be used as the print area for that frame. This changes the print area for each frame and scales the objects to fit the print area. Use bframe if you have objects of different sizes in each frame and want each object to fill the printed page.

Description

Action; prints the target movie clip according to the printer modifier specified in the argument. If you want to print only specific frames in the target movie, attach a #P frame label to the frames you want to print. Although the print action results in higher quality prints than the printAsBitmap action, it cannot be used to print movies that use alpha transparencies or special color effects.

If you do not specify a print area argument, the print area is determined by the Stage size of the loaded movie by default. The movie does not inherit the main movie's Stage size. You can control the print area by specifying the bmovie, bmax, or bframe arguments.

All of the printable elements in a movie 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.

Player

Flash 5 or later.

Example

The following example will print all of the printable frames in myMovie with the print area defined by the bounding box of the frame with the #b frame label attached:

print("myMovie","bmovie");

The following example will print all of the printable frames in myMovie with a print area defined by the bounding box of each frame:

print("myMovie","bframe");

See also

printAsBitmap