I am implementing a slide prtaintseeon editor/viewer and want to be able to clone images referenced from the slide theme for bullets as well as to be able to scale them smoothly as needed for the screen size. The smoothing property is clearly very important, but it would also be desirable to create copies of the images without reloading them from the network and without any relaxation of the security restrictions. A cross domain policy file is unlikely to be acceptable. One simple idea would be a means to clone the display object corresponding to the loader.content, or even to clone the loader itself. I've submitted feature requests to Adobe.