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Subject: Re: FLASH: Alpha turns opaque when printing (correction)
From: Matt Wobensmith
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:55:50 +0100

whoops...

Re-reading my own email, I realized that I did not fully read the original
post. Sorry!

If printing from the FLA, the info is still being sent as vector
information, not bitmap. This means alpha won't be preserved when printing
from the authoring environment.

I just tried this myself and I see what you see.

I'm sorry. I don't know how to work around this.

Any suggestions from others, most welcomed.

Matt

---------------
Matt Wobensmith
Macromedia Tech Support
Flash Team Lead


>Hi Michael -
>
>You wrote:
>
>>hi all, i wonder if anyone knows why, when a layer containing a shadow
>> gray fill 50pc alpha) is printed from within fla, the alphad colour is
>>opaque, that is, nothing underneath the shadow is visible anymore.
>
>The thing that comes to mind is that if you use the simple "print:" command,
>you're doing vector-based printing. In this case, you can't preserve vector
>transparency.
>
>To print to a PostScript printer, and preserve alpha settings, use
>"printAsBitmap:" instead. This will convert the Flash vector information
>into a raster image, which will preserve transparency.
>
>Try it and let us know what happens.
>
>Matt
>
>---------------
>Matt Wobensmith
>Macromedia Tech Support
>Flash Team Lead

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