printing an external swf movie(SOLVED)

[dina]

hi there,

I am trying to print my dynamic content, but not the one that the user observe, i'm desiging a new print format, which will never be vied on the site, it is only for printing purpose.

what am i thinking to do is to somehow, call in my hidden file by print command, or something like this. any one got any idea??

thanx
Dina

[dina]

I found a way to solve this problem, and i thought it might be useful for any one else having the same problem.

Simply make your content that u want to print on the second frame of your time line you should then add a print command on the first frame and unload the movie right after the print command:

stop ();
printNum (1, "bmax");
unloadMovieNum (1);

So what happens here is when you call this movie it stops on the first frame, it reads the print command and it unloads the movie to prevent it from looping.

you can than specify your printing object by #p or !#p. if you lable the first frame !#p and lable the second frame #p you should be fine in the printing dialog where it says how many pages you are going to print.

I’m sure there are other ways to do so, but this is simple and more importantly it works.

Dina

[Flash-db]

Thanks for that tip.  I don't know all that much about printing from Flash so ever bit helps.