Printing a coloring book

[hmp]

Hi.

I have a movie with one frame, and movieclips which can be filled with color are attached. The drawings can be printed with color, but the whole stage is printed and the #b thingy doesn't seem to work. ( I've got a box with the wanted print size on a separate layer named #b).

If I create a keyframe on frame 2 and move the boundary box there, the print size is adjusted to the box, BUT... the colors are not printed, and all the movieclips which have _visible = 0 are also printed.

So it seems I have to choose between printing the whole stage and printing the wanted area without color and with hidden lines... Does anybody know a way to solve this? I'm getting a little desperate now...

[SteveD]

Hi,
I cannot give you a complete answer on this, as it is an area I haven't really used yet. But.....
if frame 1 you had left your #b label, remove that, next in layer
outline create a keyframe in frame 2, this works, it will only print of the image selected and with the right colours etc etc, however when you click the print button the user is faced with the dialogue print box and a choice of printing 1-2 frames, presumably you don't want this, and I am not sure how to change the code to prevent this happening. The above should get you on the right track tho'
Hope it halps ( a little)

SteveD

[hmp]

Thanks a lot!! This was just what I was looking for... It worked!