Nacho, does this happen even if you right click on the movie and use that print command?

Can we print the alternative html part instead of printing flash movie?

Thank you, philip! That is what I wanted to know. For now, I will make "print" button in flash which links to plain html with css for print;)

Brent asked:
is there any way to have your alternate content print automatically when someone prints a page? This may not be possible, but maybe there's a way with javascript? I haven't been able to find any onPrint built in functions or any way to use the print stylesheet to show the alt content... Any ideas?

response:

the only way to get it to work is to have alt content remain in your document after loading the SWF, then use a print-specific CSS doc to show or hide specific page elements when printing.

the catch here is that SWFObject is designed to replace the alt content with the SWF.

an easy workaround might be to use two DIVs instead of one:

<div id="altContent">Hello!</div>
<div id="flash"></div>

declare SWFObject like normal:

var so = new SWFObject ...

use conditionals to hide the altContent div:

if(so.write("flash")){
document.getElementById("altContent").style.display = "none";
}

then use 'print'-specific CSS to specify that altContent should be visible when printing and flash should be hidden:

<style media="print" type="text/css">
<!--
#altContent {
display: block;
}

#flash {
display: none;
}
-->
</style>


- philip

thanks for the tip :)