Controlling printing

To control what users can print, remember the following items as you set up documents and movie clips for printing:

• Adjust the page layout in any frames that you designate as printable to match the desired printed output. Using Flash Player, you can print all shapes, symbols, bitmaps, text blocks, and text fields. Levels in a SWF file are not composited on print output.

• The 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. Let users print a movie clip that is not visible in a browser by using the Actions panel to set the movie clip’s _visible property to false. Changing the property of a movie clip with the setProperty 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 pasteboard and it must be given an instance name.

• All elements must be fully loaded to print. Use the movie clip _framesloaded property to check whether the printable content is loaded. For more information, see _framesloaded (MovieClip._framesloaded property) in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference.