Beginner resize from fla question

Question

I have constructed an animation in a flash fla file (i.e. pre
to generating swf) which is on a 800x 600 px canvas
For aesthetic reasons It does not work well on site at that
size and I now want to make the final swf at 400 x 300px
if I resize the canvas the layers and animation does not
scale down
is there any way to resize the whole thing - or display it
half size on the final page
it would be a pain to have to rebuild the whole thing again
from scratch - resize for every layer and every key frames, yikes!
any suggestions/ workarounds appreciated
gav

Answer 1

Hi,
Does your SWF include any bitmaps or any content that may be
affected with resizing? if so, you can resize your SWF from the
HTML, just write the new size instead of the old one in the SWF
size in the html.
If your SWF includes content that may be affected with
resizing such as bitmaps, then you have to go the hard way. When
you write the new document size, you will find the content are
fixed to the top left of your new size, so you will need to edit
the parts in the right and bottom of your Flash. You can use Edit
Multiple Frames (The icon in the time line bottom bar) option to
edit more than one keyframe at once, just drag the indicators to
include all the frames your want to edit. This will help alot and
reduce the needed effort to editing each keyframe.
I know how painful this problem is, but I hope this helps
alittle