Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 - Manual (Page 925)

Print from Flash documents
To preview and edit your documents, print frames from Adobe® Flash® Professional documents, or specify frames to be printable from Flash
Player by a viewer.
When printing frames from a Flash Professional document, use the Print dialog box to specify the range of scenes or frames to print and the
number of copies. In Windows, the Page Setup dialog box specifies paper size, orientation, and various print options—including margin settings
and whether all frames are to be printed for each page. On the Macintosh, these options are divided between the Page Setup and the Print
Margins dialog boxes.
The Print and Page Setup dialog boxes are standard in either operating system, and their appearance depends on the selected printer driver.
1. Select File > Page Setup (Windows) or File > Print Margins (Macintosh).
2. Set page margins. Select both Center options to print the frame in the center of the page.
3. In the Frames menu, select whether to print all frames in the document or only the first frame of each scene.
4. In the Layout menu, select from the following options:
Actual Size Prints the frame at full size. Enter a value for Scale to reduce or enlarge the printed frame.
Fit On One Page Reduces or enlarges each frame so it fills the print area of the page.
Storyboard Prints several thumbnails on one page. Select from Boxes, Grid, or Blank. Enter the number of thumbnails per page in the
Frames box. Set the space between the thumbnails in the Frame Margin box, and select Label Frames to print the frame label as a
thumbnail.
5. To print frames, select File > Print.
Use frame labels to disable printing
To choose not to print any of the frames in the main Timeline, label a frame as !#p to make the entire SWF file nonprintable. Labeling a frame as
!#p dims the Print command in the Flash Player context menu. You can also remove the Flash Player context menu.
If you disable printing from Flash Player, the user can still use the browser Print command to print frames. Because this command is a browser
feature, you cannot use Flash Professional to control or disable it.
Disable printing in the Flash Player context menu
1. Open or make active the Flash Professional document (FLA file) to publish.
2. Select the first keyframe in the main Timeline.
3. Select Window > Properties to view the Property inspector.
4. In the Property inspector, for Frame Label enter !#p to specify the frame as non-printing.
Specify only one !#p label to dim the Print command in the context menu.
Note: You can also select a blank frame (rather than a keyframe) and label it #p.
Disable printing by removing the Flash Player context menu
1. Open or make active the Flash Professional document (FLA file) to publish.
2. Select File > Publish Settings.
3. Select the HTML tab and deselect Display Menu and click OK.
Specify a print area when printing frames
1. Open the Flash Professional document (FLA file) containing the frames you will set to print.
2. Select a frame that you have not specified to print with a #p frame label that is on the same layer as a frame that is labeled with a #p.
To organize your work, select the next frame after a frame labeled #p.
3. Create a shape on the Stage the size of the desired print area. To use a frame’s bounding box, select a frame with any object of the
appropriate print area size.
4. Select the frame in the Timeline that contains the shape to use for the bounding box.
5. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), enter #b for Frame Label to specify the selected shape as the bounding box for the print
area.
Only one #b frame label per Timeline is allowed. This option is the same as selecting the Movie bounding box option with the Print action.
Change the printed background color
You can print the background color set in the Document Properties dialog box. Change the background color for only the frames to be printed by
placing a colored object on the lowest layer of the Timeline being printed.
1. Place a filled shape that covers the Stage on the lowest layer of the Timeline that will print.
2. Select the shape and select Modify > Document. Select a color for the printing background.
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