printing quality in flash

[alez]

I basically have to develop a program that prints out a form with the results obtained. The print out has to be an A4 document with the company logo and address and then more text with the results.
Is this text going to be printed as a graphic? thus loosing quality..

Ive been using flash for a while now, but never for printing..

Thanks all for the help !

[snapple]

alez,

There are two main actions you can use for printing :

printAsBitmap
//or
print

Try to put all that you want to print (grpahics etc) in an MC. Then select the keyframe, in the label field of the frame panel enter #p

This tells flash to print that keyframe, if there is no keyframe then all frames are targeted.

Return to main timeline, drag an instance of the MC on the stage, give it a name.

Create a button, drag an instance of it on the stage, in the actions panel, choose print, in the parameters area choose 'As vectors, from the print pull down menu, Target from the Locations pull down menu, and Movie from the Bounding box pull down menu.

Enter the target path for your MC....should work fine ?

The print action stops the playhead, printing a movie clip will only print the first frame of it, you'll have to target all of the frames inside the MC to print the whole thing.

Always asign the print action to an event handler, if you do not it will continuely loop....and cause lots of trouble.

Regards, snapple :)