Flash Tutorials

The PrintJob class lets print swf content to one or more pages.

This class lets you render content that is visible, dynamic or off-screen to the user, prompt users with a single Print dialog box, and print an unscaled document with proportions that map to the proportions of the content.

For more info visit this link: PrintJob

Steps:

1. Create a new Flash file (Actionscript 3.0) and save it as print.fla.

2. On the first frame of the Timeline crate any content you awant ( text or / and shapes ). Select all the objects and convert them into a single movie clip and give it an instance name of content.

3. Create the print button ( using the flash internal components ). Give it an instance of _print.

4. Press F9 to bring up the Actionscript editor window. First add a Click event listener to the button that will handle the print function:

   _print.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,Print);

then create the Print() function.

  function Print(e:MouseEvent):void
  {
        var printJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();

        if (printJob.start()) 
        {

             if (content.width>printJob.pageWidth) {
            content.width=printJob.pageWidth;
            content.scaleY=content.scaleX;
        }

         printJob.addPage(content);
        printJob.send();
}
}

And that's it. You can now test the project.

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