Flash in so với trình duyệt In ấn Mặc dù tất cả những cách thức tương tác và thú vị mà bạn có thể sử dụng Flash để tạo các bài thuyết trình đa phương tiện mạnh mẽ, đôi khi nó thích hợp để thêm chức năng in ấn để một ứng dụng. Chức năng in ấn sẽ được cả hai hữu ích và thích hợp cho các ứng dụng sau | Flash Printing versus Browser Printing Despite all the interactive and exciting ways in which you can use Flash to create powerful multimedia presentations sometimes it s appropriate to add print functionality to an application. Printing functionality would be both useful and appropriate for the following applications Employee directory Word processor Drawing program Quiz with a results screen at the end There are three ways to print Flash content Using the standard Web page print option found in all Web browsers if the movie is being viewed in a browser window Right-clicking Control-clicking on a Macintosh the SWF being played in the Web browser and then selecting the Print option from the context menu that appears. Support for this feature was first officially introduced with the Flash 5 player although there was limited support in certain versions of the Flash 4 player. Having content printed as the result of ActionScript Let s look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of each option. Most people know how to print with the browser s Print command but it doesn t give them much control of what s printed. Typically when using this option everything on the page is printed in addition to the desired Flash content. This includes text graphics buttons banner ads and any form elements that may be visible. The user ends up printing a bunch of extra distracting stuff that probably has no importance to him or her. Right-clicking Control-clicking on a Macintosh an SWF and choosing the Print option from the context menu that appears is a better option because it allows the user to focus printing efforts on the content within the SWF file however there are a few problems with this option. Users may not know that the context menu option even exists. Also when printing with this command only frames on the main time line are printed considering the fact that a Flash movie can contain many timelines this restriction is somewhat limiting. And if you can deal with the first
