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Preparing movies for printing
To set up printing from the Flash Player, you can specify which frames to print and set their print
area. To best control what users can print, keep the following in mind as you set up movies and
movie clips for printing:
• Adjust the page layout in any frames that you’ll designate as printable to match the desired
printed output. Using the Flash Player, you can print all shapes, symbols, bitmaps, text blocks,
and text fields. Levels in a Flash movie are not composited on print output.
• The Flash Player printer driver uses the HTML settings for dimension, scale, and alignment in
the Publish Settings dialog box. Use these settings to control the print layout.
• The selected frames print as they appear in the movie clip symbol. You can let users print a
movie clip that is not visible in a browser by setting the movie clip’s _visible property to
false using the Actions panel. Changing the property of a movie clip with the Set Property
action, tweening, or any transformation tool does not affect how a movie clip prints.
• For a movie clip to be printable, it must be on the Stage or work area and it must be given an
instance name.
• All elements must be fully loaded to print. You can use the _framesloaded property to check
whether the printable content is loaded. For more information, see this term in the online
ActionScript Dictionary in the Help menu.
Supported printers
With the Flash Player, you can print to both PostScript and non-PostScript printers. For a list of
supported Flash Player printing platforms, see “Flash Web Printing for eBusiness”on the
Macromedia Web site (www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/webprinting/faq.html).
Designating printable frames
All frames in the specified Timeline print by default. You may want to limit the number of frames
that can print—for example, if you have a lengthy animation of dozens of frames. You can
designate specific frames in a movie as printable in order to print only those frames; unspecified
frames won’t print.
To specify frames as printable, you label the frames.
To designate printable frames:
1 Open or make active the movie that you want to publish.
2 Select the desired frame in the Timeline that you want to make printable.
3 Choose Window > Properties to view the Property inspector.
4 In the Property inspector, for Label enter #p to specify the frame as printable.
5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each frame you want to designate as printable.
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