Off stage printing

Question

I have a director movie from which I wish to print. I have
created the image I wish to print, which is made up of several
sprites, and put a border sprite around this. What I wish to be
able to do is to print this group of sprites from off stage. The
user should never see them appear on screen. I have previously used
code along the lines of:
stageImage = (the stage).image
spriteImage = stageImage.crop(sprite(83).rect)
member("printimage").image = spriteImage
to take a section of the stage and store it as a cast member
which I can then print. However because I want my section to be
taken from offstage I am unsure how to do it. I have tried taking
using the sprite(83).rect to define the image but this doesn't
work.
Any help will be most appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't think you should be any different than the rest of us
and escape the
hassle of assembling printable pages using Print-O-matic;)
But Print-O-matic is the way to go hands down.
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com
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> Another issue is that the combined size of the table of
sprites I which to
> print is bigger than my stage so I cant simply place it
on stage and print
> the
> stage either.
>
> The on screen feedback is displayed over 3 screens where
as the printed
> feedback puts all 3 pieces into one big table (hence
being bigger than
> stage
> size) and this is what I want to print.
>
> I have used printomatic before, but I cant simply amend
cast members to
> the
> document as they need to print out in the correct
location or else the
> feedback
> (and ticks/crosses) will not line up/be relevant. Also a
problem with
> printing
> off individual sprites, hence I need to grab a
'screenshot' of the table
> from
> off stage, store it as a cast member which I can then
print.
>
> Im trying to give as much info as possible as I am
running out of ideas.
>