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USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL
Managing documents
See also
“
Publishing overview
” on page 379
Disable printing in the Flash Player context menu
1
Open or make active the Flash document (FLA file) to publish.
2
Select the first keyframe in the main Timeline.
3
Select Window
> Properties to view the Property inspector.
4
In the Property inspector, for Frame Label enter
!#p
to specify the frame as non-printing.
Specify only one
!#p
label to dim the Print command in the context menu.
Note:
You can also select a blank frame (rather than a keyframe) and label it
#p
.
Disable printing by removing the Flash Player context menu
1
Open or make active the Flash document (FLA file) to publish.
2
Select File
> Publish Settings.
3
Select the HTML tab and deselect Display Menu and click OK.
Specify a print area when printing frames
1
Open the Flash document (FLA file) containing the frames you will set to print.
2
Select a frame that you have not specified to print with a
#p
frame label that is on the same layer as a frame that is
labeled with a
#p
.
To organize your work, select the next frame after a frame labeled
#p
.
3
Create a shape on the Stage the size of the desired print area. To use a frame’s bounding box, select a frame with
any object of the appropriate print area size.
4
Select the frame in the Timeline that contains the shape to use for the bounding box.
5
In the Property inspector (Window
> Properties), enter
#b
for Frame Label to specify the selected shape as the
bounding box for the print area.
Only one
#b
frame label per Timeline is allowed. This option is the same as selecting the Movie bounding box option
with the Print action.
Change the printed background color
You can print the background color set in the Document Properties dialog box. Change the background color for only
the frames to be printed by placing a colored object on the lowest layer of the Timeline being printed.
1
Place a filled shape that covers the Stage on the lowest layer of the Timeline that will print.
2
Select the shape and select Modify > Document. Select a color for the printing background.
This action changes the entire document’s background color, including that of movie clips and loaded SWF files.
3
Do one of the following:
•
To print that color as the document’s background, designate to print the frame in which you placed the shape.
•
To maintain a different background color for non-printing frames, repeat steps 2 and 3. Then place the shape on
the lowest layer of the Timeline, in all the frames that are not designated to print.
Updated 5 March 2009
