Adding movies to Indesign automated page-curl swf export

I know there have been several discussions on this, but I thought I would ask the question anyway.
I have a magazine created in InDesign, I can add hyperlinks to pages and websites and export it as a nice swf file with a page curl transition. The problem seems to be when anyone wants to edit the Flash file (.xfl), they loose the nice smooth page curl transition, is there no way this can be moved to Flash easily (bear in mind my knowledge of Action script is limited).
Any help would be much appreciated.

See this Help topic. From InDesign CS4, you have two ways to create Flash files -- SWF and XFL. If you export to SWF, you can include page curls, hyperlinks, transitions, and navigation buttons. If you export to XFL, you lose any button, hyperlink, or transition you've added in InDesign, and you use Flash Pro to add those things along with fancier animation effects. If you export to SWF, you can't edit the file. If you export to XFL, you have to know Flash Pro well enough to edit the file.

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I successfully added a .swf file movie to an InDesign document and published to PDF - the first take went fine.
Then I added audio to my (Captivate) file, republished as .swf, and placed it in another InDesign document.
This time I get the message: "One or more interactive elements are clipped in ways that PDF files cannot reproduce. Those elements will be adjusted in the exported PDF."
The PDF file appears to be blank.
Should I be able to place a .swf file that includes sound into an InDesign file for output to PDF? Perhaps I am doing something else wrong, but I want to verify that the sound should come over with the .swf.
Anne G.

See this Help topic. From InDesign CS4, you have two ways to create Flash files -- SWF and XFL. If you export to SWF, you can include page curls, hyperlinks, transitions, and navigation buttons. If you export to XFL, you lose any button, hyperlink, or transition you've added in InDesign, and you use Flash Pro to add those things along with fancier animation effects. If you export to SWF, you can't edit the file. If you export to XFL, you have to know Flash Pro well enough to edit the file.

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I have created a two-page Christmas card for my company. I used the Adobe TV video to see how to create a SWF file with page curl to import into an InDesign file and keep page turn in a PDF.
The only problem is that I can't find how to use the first page of the card as a poster for the PDF; when receivers see the file at the moment, they get is the image below, a screen-filling image with a SWF icon in the corner with a button that says 'activate here' which looks ugly.
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Add to that many people don't even have it installed on desktops anymore.

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Hey, well thanks for responding.... but, if ANY other people who are novice web designers want to find out the answer to what, apparently, is a dumb question, a point in the right direction would be nice. Even if it was only a few people checking back to see if an answer was there, it means they want to know how - just as badly as I do.
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Sorry, you are insisting in a functionality which is NOT supposed to work and will not work in some rare exceptions. It makes no sense to say I will that it works this and that way, when it does not work,, because this functionality is explicit not supported.
With Acrobat 9 and X it was possible to use SWF without extra Flashplayer on Computers, but with XI it will not work without Flashplayer,
It will never work with computer without Flashplayer installed or on any Android or iOS.
If you implement it, you must have first no-one-needs-it curly effect, and after it is done change to another page where with a page action will run a movie. But this will not work with many users.
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Okay, so I need an interactive pdf with a page curl AND an interactive form. I exported my Indesign file as a swf file with the interactive page curl, (which the interactive form doesn't work on), then I imported the swf file back into Indesign, opened the media tab and chose the option to 'open file on current page' so that when I open the pdf it doesn't ask me to activate the file before use, and then export as an interactive pdf. the interactive page curl works perfectly, but the form doesn't work. How do I put an Indesign form into my interactive pdf?

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If I understand correctly, you are calling the addInstance() on click of the button that you placed in your form and when you add more pages using this button and save the fikle and open it again, the newly added instances are not displayed in the form. Am I right?
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Hi,
I have some questions about the SWF version of the Indesign Files.
I would like a bit more control on how it sits in a webpage if possible.
If I export as normal, the SWF file sits in the top left side of the page.
If I export and tick the box to include the pagecurl feature, it sits in the middle of the page.
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If I open the generated html file in Dreamweaver the page is basically blank.
Are you looking at the code? Unless something has changed with CS 5.5 you should see the javascript that loads the swf at the top of the page in the DW code view. Look at the bottom for the load parameters:
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I suppose you are talking about a work-around method where you export your actual layout as SWF and then place that SWF-file back to InDesign and export that as Interactive PDF?
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You understand wrong -- the Page Curl is NOT available for exporting to PDF.
See http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSE9637270-6B1C-4287-A97B-0EC73859A3EB.html -- it says "(SWF only)". (Doesn't it also say that in the Transition options dialog?)
With that out of the way,
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
what if I only have a pdf file and i want to include the page curl effect?
See above.
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
anybody knows what's the quickest way to do this?
See above.
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
Is there any way to import multiple pdf pages into Indesign CS5 so that i can republish it from Indesign CS5? or is there any third party software that can do this easily?
Sure. Search for "Scott Zanelli's PDF Import script".
(... If all you wanted was to get that nice page curl in your PDF, you probably stopped reading already.)

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