User Guide

Global Functions 93
boundingBox:String - 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 of the 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 if 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
you want each object to fill the printed page.
Example
The following example prints the contents of the Stage when the user clicks the button
myBtn_btn. The area to print is defined by the bounding box of the frame.
myBtn_btn.onRelease = function(){
printAsBitmapNum(0, "bframe")
};
See also
print function, printAsBitmap function, PrintJob, printNum function
printNum function
printNum(level:Number, boundingBox:String) : Void
Prints the level in Flash Player according to the boundaries specified in the boundingBox
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 boundingBox 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.