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Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference
printNum()
Availability
Flash Player 5.
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
printNum (
level:Number
, "
Bounding box
"
:String
)
: Void
Parameters
level
The level in Flash Player to print. By default, all the frames in the level print. If you want
to print specific frames in the level, assign a
#p
frame label to those frames.
Bounding box
A modifier that sets the print area of the movie clip. Enclose this parameter in
quotation marks (" or '), and specify one of the following values:
•
bmovie
Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie clip as the print area for
all printable frames in the movie clip. 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 the bounding boxes of all the printable frames as the print
area. Specify the
bmax
parameter when the printable frames in your movie clip 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 level in Flash Player according to the boundaries specified in the
Bounding
box
parameter (
"
bmovie
"
,
"
bmax
"
,
"
bframe
"
). If you want to print specific frames in the target
movie clip, attach a
#p
frame label to those frames. Although using
printNum()
results in higher
quality prints than using
printAsBitmapNum()
, you cannot use
printNum()
to print movies
with alpha transparencies or special color effects.
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 clip. (The loaded movie clip does
not inherit the main movie’s Stage size.)
All the printable elements in a movie clip 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()
,
printAsBitmap()
,
printAsBitmapNum()
,
PrintJob class
CHAPTER 2
ActionScript Language Reference
Summary of Contents for FLASH MX
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Page 529: ...MovieClip globalToLocal 529 See also MovieClip getBounds MovieClip localToGlobal ...
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Page 623: ...NetConnection class 623 See also NetStream class Video attachVideo ...
Page 649: ...Number 649 See also NaN Number class ...
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Page 683: ...onUpdate 683 buttonLabel textColor my_mc labelColor ...
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Page 1001: ...Video height 1001 my_mc _height my_mc my_video height See also MovieClip _height Video width ...
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Page 1057: ...XML xmlDecl 1057 See also XML docTypeDecl XML toString ...
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