Use Flash's robust printing support to add print functionality to your Flash movies or Web applications. By using off-screen movie clips and ActionScripts movie clip copying commands, effective printouts can be assembled on the fly.
by Eric Jansson
November 12, 2002
Use Flash's robust printing support to add print functionality to your Flash movies or Web applications. By using off-screen movie clips and ActionScripts movie clip copying commands, you can create effective printouts assembled on-the-fly.
Flash's support for printing via the ActionScript print() commands remains a seldom-used, often-overlooked set of features Flash offers. Dont be fooled, however: Flash is capable of producing sophisticated, high-quality printouts. In fact, since Flash is working with vector graphics formats, it can produce printouts of a quality which often surpasses that of the Web browser's printing. For my company's last software project, we used Flash to add printing support to the Web-based application we were developing. We found that by moving printing to Flash, we could surpass the capabilities of the Web browsers native support and offer much richer printouts to our users.
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