SWF scaling problems in a Portfolio

How do I get a SWF to scale properly in my Acrobat 9.x portfolio home page? Objects don't seem to keep their relative proportions/composition when the window is resized.

DaJoDa,
Could you please give me more specifics so i can answer your question?
LuSeeMoo

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I have a movieClip for loading external pictures or SWF files
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to keep the object in view. For example, if a line of text starts
off-stage left and is tweened to off-stage right, the movieClip
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While this may one day be a nifty effect to play with, it's
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I'd also like to keep it a movieClip, since I want it to be
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Okay, first, let me say, I completely forgot to move the
loading movieClip's registration mark to the top-left corner; when
I did that, it stopped the wierd scaling when the objects were
off-stage top and left.
I then tried masking as you suggested, and it did work, sort
of - the area where the mask covered the right and bottom still
showed, at least the mask did (which surrounded, but was not on,
the stage). The result was a little version of the loaded SWF,
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That's when I realized that flash ignores the stage
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when I had to replace the background color with a rectangle on a
bottom layer.
It then struck me exactly what I did wrong - the function
that resizes the SWF to match the loading movieClip's size was
still looping (all it did was check to make sure the loaded SWF was
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stage, they were taken into account everytime. I setup a flag that
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That's what I get for writing actionscript at 3 in the
morning.
I'm not sure if this will still work for symbols that start
off-stage right or bottom (the registration mark prevents them from
showing left and top regardless of the resizing). A single starting
blank frame should fix that, though.
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