Most users want a hard copy of an off-screen movie clip or some other informative flash presentation, particularly to make a story-board style for presentation purpose. But, if there is no print functionality, then printing can be a bit tricky. However, there are some good ways to add print functionality to flash movie clips or web applications. With ActionScript, flash web page design experts can add movie clip copying commands to flash web applications and videos for creating effective printouts.

Developers involved in flash web pages design often overlook flash ActionScript’s print commands, which are, in fact, a very robust support for flash printing. Most developers do not use it and look for other alternatives to take printouts. But, flash has the capability of producing high-quality, sophisticated printouts.

Interestingly, since flash is based on vector graphics format, it can produce printouts that are far better than a web browser’s printing. Most web application development firms involved in web-based software projects employ flash to add printing support to their web applications. They use flash because it can surpass the native printing support abilities of today’s web browsers and provide a richer experience to users.

To add print functionality to movie clips and applications, developers have two options in flash. They can either use the print () command menu of ActionScript or use the flash player context menu to meet the printing requirements. Most developers add the print functionality in the context menu, which enables users to print offline flash movies. Users have to right-click on the clip and choose “print” from the pop-up menu.

However, ActionScript printing commands are much robust. The main reason is its flexibility as designers can use these commands to specify what is to be printed. Developers can acquire information on ActionScript’s printing commands from the Macromedia documentation.

Adding printing functionality to custom flash web design allows users to have a rich printing experience as they will not have to rely on a web browser’s printing capabilities.


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