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printAsBitmap()
Availability
Flash Player 4.20.
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 PrintJob
class entry.
Usage
printAsBitmap(target, "Bounding box")
Parameters
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 specific frames in the movie, attach a
#p frame label to those frames.
Bounding box A modifier that sets the print area of the movie. Enclose this parameter in
quotation marks, and specify one of the following values:
• bmovie Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie as the print area for all
printable frames in the movie. Assign a
#b frame label to 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 parameter when the printable frames in your movie vary in size.
• bframe Indicates that the bounding box of each printable frame should 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.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Function; prints the target movie clip as a bitmap according to the boundaries specified in the
parameter (
bmovie, bmax, or bframe). Use printAsBitmap() to print movies that contain frames
with objects that use transparency or color effects. The
printAsBitmap() action prints at the
highest available resolution of the printer in order to maintain as much definition and quality
as possible.
If your movie does not contain alpha transparencies or color effects, Macromedia recommends
that you use
print() for better quality results.
If you use
bmovie for the Bounding box parameter but do not assign a #b label to a frame, the
print area is determined by the Stage size of the loaded movie. (The loaded movie does not inherit
the main movie’s Stage size.)
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.
See also
print(), printAsBitmapNum(), PrintJob class, printNum()
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