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Printing from the Flash Player context menu

You can use the Print command in the Flash Player context menu to print frames from any Flash SWF file.

The context menu's Print command cannot print transparency or color effects and cannot print frames from other movie clips; for more sophisticated printing capabilities, use the PrintJob object or the print() function. See Using the ActionScript PrintJob class and Using the print() function (when not using the PrintJob object).

To print frames using the Flash Player context menu Print command:

  1. Open the document with frames you will print.

    The command prints the frames labeled #p using the Stage for the print area or the specified bounding box.

    If you haven't designated specific frames to print, all frames in the document main Timeline print.

  2. Select File > Publish Preview > Default or press F12 to view your Flash content in a browser.
  3. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) in the Flash content in the browser window to display the Flash Player context menu.
  4. Select Print from the Flash Player context menu to display the Print dialog box.
  5. In Windows, select the print range to select which frames to print:
    • Select All to print all frames if no frames are labeled.
    • Select Pages and enter a range to print the labeled frames in that range.
    • Select Selection to print the current frame.
  6. On the Macintosh, in the Print dialog box, select the pages to print:
    • Select All to print the current frame if no frames are labeled or to print all labeled frames.
    • Select From and enter a range to print the labeled frames in that range.
  7. Select other print options, according to your printer's properties.
  8. Click OK (Windows) or Print (Macintosh).

    Note: Printing from the context menu does not interact with calls to the PrintJob object.

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