Lesson #5 - Designating print areas
The possibility of pre-designating printable areas of your website is an important improvement to web-printing in general. There are several ways...

Creating a box to mark the printable area:

Step 1: Select an empty frame in your timeline.

Step 2: Draw a filled shape in this frame - this shape will be the printable area. Color doesn't matter.

Step 3: Click properties for this frame in the timeline.

Step 4: In the Label tab, label the frame "#b".

Note: Only the first occurance of "#b" will be used. Also, using "#b" only applies for the active timeline, e.g. not loaded movies, nor subscenes.

Specifying a print area consisting of several frames:

Step 1: Repeat Lesson #1 til step 4.

Step 2: Instead of typing "print:", type "print:#bmax".

This will make all printable frames act as the printable area. This is good for animations.

Creating a print button that will scale the Flash objects to largest possible print size:

Step 1: Repeat Lesson #1 til step 4.

Step 2: Instead of typing "print:", type "print:#bframe".

This will scale objects on all printable frames to the largest possible size on the printed page.