ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

printAsBitmapNum() Global Function

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// Print every frame in the main movie timeline,

// sizing each frame relative to the combined size of all frames

print("_root", "bmax");

When the print_btn button is clicked, Flash prints all frames in the button’s parent time-

line, cropped to the bounding box of the frame with the label

#b, and sized to fill the page:

print_btn.onRelease = function () {

print(this._parent, "bmovie");

}

See Also

getURL(), printAsBitmap(), printAsBitmapNum(), printNum()

printAsBitmap() Global Function

print the frames of a movie or movie clip as bitmaps

Flash 5

printAsBitmap(target, boundingBox)

Arguments

target A string or reference indicating the path to the movie clip or document level

to print (references are converted to paths when used in a string context).

boundingBox

A string—either

"bframe", "bmax",or"bmovie"—indicating how the printed

frames of

target should be cropped or scaled when printed, as described

earlier under print().

Description

The printAsBitmap() function is functionally identical to print(), except that it outputs

rasterized content to the printer, not vectors. Therefore, it can successfully print movies

with alpha channels and color transformations, but it produces poorer quality for vector-

based artwork.

Usage

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