Exporting from swf

i have a large swf (900 x 600) and need to export a
printscreen image when the user clicks a button.
it is possible to export the printscreen as another swf? and
how would one do this?
any tutorial recommendations?
i have read some tutorials about how to export JPGs using AS
& PHP, but i think my file dimentions are too large for this to
be practical.
thanks!

Besides the tiny little .swf file, you also need to upload the .flv video file, any skin you may be using (another .swf file) as well as any javascript file used for Flash detection. So there may be 3 or 4 files that need uploading, not just one.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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I found one post in another forum that quoted an Adobe InD developer stating that as of CS4 email links were not exported. However, I've not been able to find any mention of whether this works in CS5 or not.
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Sorry, no offense was intended. I had found references to problems with CS4, but nothing about CS5, and said as much in my post -- was frustrated that I had spent a long time looking and hadn't found any responses yet.
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Hi want2learn,
Sorry but no - Edge Animate is an HTML5 animation tool, and creates only HTML & Javascript files.
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Animation software | Download free Flash Professional CC trial
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Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000500d98eb
VM Regions Near 0x500d98eb:
Memory tag=240         000000000ebd0000-000000000ec90000 [ 768K] ---/rwx SM=NUL
-->
__TEXT 0000000070000000-0000000070142000 [ 1288K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/MacOS/CoreAudio
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objc_msgSend() selector name: orderOut:
objc[9434]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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1   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00467d96 main + 240950
2   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0047efda main + 335738
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x002feae2 0x1000 + 3136226
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0033a77b 0x1000 + 3381115
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00462718 main + 218808
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x004628b2 main + 219218
7   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e0b3df __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15
8   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e0ad96 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 246
9   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e34c68 __CFRunLoopRun + 1112
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e3447c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 332
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e34328 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 120
12 com.apple.HIToolbox             0x9289117f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 318
13 com.apple.HIToolbox             0x928984e7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 381
14 com.apple.HIToolbox             0x92898356 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
15 com.apple.AppKit                0x98fe8a9c _DPSNextEvent + 678
16 com.apple.AppKit                0x98fe8306 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 113
17 com.apple.AppKit                0x98fe4675 -[NSApplication run] + 911
18 com.apple.AppKit                0x99278261 NSApplicationMain + 1054
19 com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x000032a2 0x1000 + 8866
20 com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x000031c9 0x1000 + 8649
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3f90a kevent + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib               0x99a75c58 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 969
2   libdispatch.dylib               0x99a746a7 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53
Thread 2:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9232482a pthread_cond_wait + 48
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff62f 0x1000 + 4187695
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0001a06c 0x1000 + 102508
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9232482a pthread_cond_wait + 48
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff62f 0x1000 + 4187695
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0001a06c 0x1000 + 102508
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 4:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237cf7b pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np + 47
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff5f8 0x1000 + 4187640
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x001c58fe 0x1000 + 1853694
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 5:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237cf7b pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np + 47
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff5f8 0x1000 + 4187640
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00305328 0x1000 + 3162920
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 6:: com.apple.audio.IOThread.client
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3cc22 mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3c1f6 mach_msg + 70
2   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd8e9fe HALB_MachPort::SendMessageWithReply(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned long, unsigned long, mach_msg_header_t*, unsigned int) + 122
3   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd8ea6a HALB_MachPort::SendSimpleMessageWithSimpleReply(unsigned int, unsigned int, int, int&, unsigned int) + 60
4   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd86e5f HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOWorkLoop() + 1145
5   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd86926 HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOThreadEntry(void*) + 136
6   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd86898 __HALC_ProxyIOContext_block_invoke_6 + 20
7   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd8681d HALB_IOThread::Entry(void*) + 69
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 7:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3f02e __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237accf _pthread_wqthread + 773
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6fe start_wqthread + 30
Thread 8:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3f02e __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237accf _pthread_wqthread + 773
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6fe start_wqthread + 30
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00dbe0e0 ebx: 0x00dbe0e0 ecx: 0x99985548 edx: 0x500d98cb
edi: 0x0000036e esi: 0x00aad0e0 ebp: 0xbfffe4f8 esp: 0xbfffe488
ss: 0x00000023 efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0x92115d47   cs: 0x0000001b
ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
cr2: 0x500d98eb
Logical CPU: 1

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To my knowledge, the ability to export as .swf was removed after CS3. Do you know what version of Photoshop your client was using?
Here are some past threads regarding this topic:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2986280?tstart=0
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4897912#4897912
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3239504#3239504
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2512325#2512325
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The .xlf I'm working with was successfully completed and published to Crystalreports.com and is working fine. The problems began when two additional Live Office connections were added to allow for some additional data points in the next release of the dashboard. The data model now contains a few hundred more rows and a few hundred forumlas causing the Excel file to increase to just under 1MB. The total number of rows of data return in all Live Office connections combine are just over 1,000 rows. The max # rows setting in Xcelsius is set to 2,000. The formula cells added to the data model are fairly simple formulas that were successfully used in the data model previously (ISERROR, INDEX, MATCH).
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thanks for the quick advice. so we can scale back the data to within 512 rows by splitting this into 2 dashboards. Not ideal, but shouldl be acceptable.
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Trouble exporting to swf

Hi , I am using flash CS3 Pro, and i am having an odd
problem. First every other file i have made exports fine. I opened
my last site to make some minor changes in text and images and
after i saved it and went to publish it did not work. The file
directory is set as usual and nothing else changed except for some
additional text and a image swap so i can not figure out what is
going on PLEASE HELP !
I noticed that when i i press F12 and its in the process of
exporting the file will show up in the destination folder for about
2-3 seconds then disappear. It also wont preview export or publish.
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[branched to a new thread]
There's seldom any reason or benefit to exporting a SWF file directly from After Effects. Relatively few things are preserved as vectors (which is the main reason to export a SWF file). See this page for details.
There are several options for creating movies from After Effects that will play in Flash Player. See this section for more information.

Exporting to swf background problem

Hi all,
I've created an animation which has a black background (created a black solid), and then added new images on top of it.
The new images all had black backgrounds along with the actual object so using colourkey I removed the black of each images background so that the shape in the image only shows. (hope this all makes sense so far!)
now when i came to export the file to swf, i played it on a webpage and the black background mage does not show, its transparent, and the black background of each image which i removed with the colour key does show up!!
arghhhh please can someone help me asap!!!???
Thanks

First, why are you exporting as SWF from After Effects? That is only useful if you need to preserve vectors, and there are very few things that are preserved as vectors when exporting to SWF from After Effects. If you need a SWF animation, it's almost always better to create it in Flash. If you want to export your animations from After Effects to play in Flash, it's almost always best to render and export to F4V or FLV. See this page for information about alternatives for creating material from After Effects for Flash or Flash Player: "Rendering and exporting for Flash Professional or Flash Player".
Very often, when someone complains of something not appearing in a SWF file exported from After Effects, it's because they selected Ignore for the Unsupported Features setting. See "Render and export a composition as a SWF file".

Oversaturated colors on exporting from CS5.

Hi everybody,
I'd like to try to ask to the forum something that I'm not able to understand.
I just downloaded the trial of the new flash cs5 and I was playing around to have a look at the new version.
What I did:
- picked a png file of a logo, previously exported from illustrator and imported in flash, then exported the whole thing in swf, then embedded in an html page and looked at it on a wide gamut monitor on safari: colors oversaturated, just like when opening, in photoshop, a picture which has no profile;
- tryed again, this time opening the png in photoshop, assigning srgb profile and re-saving the png: again oversaturated;
- tryed again, importing directly the illustrator file, which already was srgb: oversaturated.
Meanwhile, a friend made an flv from an mp4 of mine, which is a slide show of jpeg srgb pictures, and when he embedded it on my site, I saw again wrong colors.
I'm wondering if it depends on my wide gamut monitor, on flash, on safari, or what else.
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Ok, now everything is clear.
I found some explanations about the issue. It seems that it concerns a system with OSX, Safari and a wide gamut monitor. Flash nullifies color tags in the pictures, Safari displays non-tagged pictures as they are monitor-profile tagged... and since the monitor profile is a wide gamut profile, voila, oversaturated colors.
In fact, trying to use Camino browser on the same system, everything works fine and the colors are perfect.
Now, to whom this issue should be addressed? Adobe or Apple?
Meanwhile I'll go browsing with Camino or setting the monitor in srgb mode for internet.

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