Printing Macromedia Flash movies from a browser
Macromedia Flash movies can be printed from the browser in two ways, with the Macromedia Flash Player context menu or the Print ActionScript method. Using the ActionScript method gives the designer control over what items are printed.
This printing functionally first appeared in Macromedia Flash Player 4, release version r20 and above. Previous versions of the player do not support printing from the Macromedia Flash Player.
TheMacromedia Flash 5 print authoring kithas sample files and documentation that can be used with Macromedia Flash 5 and Macromedia Flash MX. Macromedia Flash MX also includes documentation about printing from the player.
Macromedia Flash 4 users can download the Macromedia Flash Printing SDK for Macromedia Flash Player 4 for more information on printing or see the Macromedia Flash manual (Help > Using Flash).
Flash Printing SDK for Macromedia Flash Player 4:
| Windows 95/98/NT | Power Macintosh | |
| English | Flashprinting_SDK.zip2.8 MB | Flashprinting_SDK.hqx3.9 MB |
| French | Flashprinting_SDK_fr.zip2.8 MB | Flashprinting_SDK_fr.hqx3.9 MB |
| German | Flashprinting_SDK_de.zip2.8 MB | Flashprinting_SDK_de.hqx3.9 MB |
| Italian | Flashprinting_SDK_it.zip2.8 MB | Flashprinting_SDK_it.hqx3.9 MB |
| Japanese | Flashprinting_SDK_jp.zip3.1 MB | Flashprinting_SDK_jp.hqx4.4 MB |
| Portugese | Flashprinting_SDK_br.zip2.8 MB | Flashprinting_SDK_br.hqx3.9 MB |
| Spanish | Flashprinting_SDK_es.zip2.8 MB | Flashprinting_SDK_es.hqx3.9 MB |
Note:The Macromedia Flash Player can also be integrated into Visual Basic applications for printing by using ActionScript invoked by Visual Basic.
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