Print button parameters

[apollo85]

Hi all,

I have a print button on the main stage. When released, it targets a specific MC instance and prints it out... fine so far.

However, I want to specify another 3 parameters to the print button:

1) The object has to be printed out in LANDSCAPE format (default is portrait). Can this be coded into the button's actions?

2) The printed MC instance should have a short line of descriptive text at bottom of page. I tried to put the text in the MC itself, where it's not visible on the stage, but am wondering if there's a better way of doing this.

3) I want to control the output size (ie % scaling) of the printed-out MC.

Here's the code I'm using at present:

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on (release) {
printAsBitmap("gallitem1", "bmovie");
}
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I need to know what (if any) additional code achieves the above 3 results... any ideas?

Thanks for your time!

Benny

 

[kennethkawamoto]

printAsBitmap" is a Flash 4 command, if you're targeting Flash 7+ you should use PrintJob Class instead. However even in the PrintJob Class I don't think you can set the print orientation - it's up to the user how to print. But you can obtain "PrintJob.orientation" property (read-only) so that if it's "portrait" then you can alert the user - in theory at least as I haven't tested this.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk