Scaling AVM1Movie for using with BitmapData in as3 - actionscript-3

Question

I have a actionscript 2 SWF that I am wanting to export into a PNG, however the fact that it is loaded as a AVM1Movie in as3 is proving quite troublesome.
When you load the as2 swf in just the normal standalone flash player, you can right click -> zoom in and it scales well since its redrawing the vector data at the size. But when i'm trying to make the Loader object (that contains the loaded as2 swf) scale, whenever i draw it to a BitmapData object, i just get the original size of the swf with blank space around it, rather then having the swf scale to the new dimensions.
My code looks like this:
var theFile:File = File(event.target);
var dis:DisplayObject = this.mLoader.content;
dis.width *=2;
dis.height *=2;
var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(dis.width, dis.height, true, 0x00000000);
trace("display object height and width is " + dis.width + " " + dis.height);
bd.draw(dis);
var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
stream.open(theFile, FileMode.WRITE);
stream.writeBytes(PNGEncoder.encode(bd)); // needs as3corelib
stream.close();
Alert.show("saved to " + theFile.nativePath );
But when I open up the resulting PNG File, I get this (red shows the transparent background):
Is there any way to make it so that when I draw the as2 swf to BitmapData, it scales it like it would in the flash player?

Answer 1

I believe you should be able to simply use scaleX and scaleY properties instead of attempting to multiple the height and width values.
var dis:DisplayObject = this.mLoader.content;
//dis.width *=2;
dis.scaleX = 2;
//dis.height *=2;
dis.scaleY = 2;
EDIT
Alternatively since the above isn't working for you try to use a matrix argument for the draw call.
var mat:Matrix = new Matrix();
mat.scale(2,2);
bd.draw(dis,mat);