ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference - Adobe Help and Support

printAsBitmap function
printAsBitmap(target:Object, boundingBox:String) : Void
Prints the target movie clip as a bitmap according to the boundaries specified in the
parameter (bmovie, bmax, or bframe). Use printAsBitmap() to print movie clips 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 clip does not contain alpha transparencies or color effects, Adobe recommends
that you use print() for better quality results.
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 clip'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.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 4 - (4.0.20.0) 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.
Parameters
target:Object - The instance name of the movie clip to print. By default, all of the frames
in the movie clip are printed. If you want to print specific frames in the movie clip, attach a #p
frame label to those frames.
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 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
want each object to fill the printed page.
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