Hitting a specific file size when exporting from Flash CS5

I need to export three banners to .swf from flash and they all need to be under 61K. They all use photographs and are 5-7 seconds long each and the dimentions are 300x250 px, 300x600 px & 728x90 px. Is there any way I can put in the specific file size in the program and make it under 61k? I tried using the publish settings and lowering the quality and even at 40% quality the file size only went down 20KB from 147 to 127. If you cannot do that in the program is there any third party programs that can be used to do this? Thanks for your help!

What you should do is set the Publish Settings to generate a size report. That way you will have a detailed listing of what each element of the design contributes to the file weight. I would guess that the images are going to be the heavy hitters, so you might need to use image software to optimize them as much as possible before importing them into Flash.

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Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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
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0   libobjc.A.dylib                 0x92115d47 objc_msgSend + 23
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
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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
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20 com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x000031c9 0x1000 + 8649
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2   libdispatch.dylib               0x99a746a7 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53
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1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
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4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0001a06c 0x1000 + 102508
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1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
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ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
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I have some text that was created to outlines, filled and has a drop shadow applied. When I export the document to pdf, part of the text (the fill) disappears, and all I get is the drop shadow. I tried changing to a non-spot color, I tried removing all attributes, and nothing seems to work! I also tried copying that artwork to the clipboard and pasting it into an Illustrator file (says it is too big to fit the pasteboard, which I verified sizes - and it should fit. I tried copying the paths and pasting them in Photoshop as a smart object... no luck either. What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any help!

FYI - in the "Adobe InDesign Component Infirmation" dialogue box I learned all kinds of info - are you looking for something in particular? I learned that the document was created in InDesign version 7.0.4.553 (which is what I think I was using before I updated my InDesign earlier today)
There aren't particular obvious signs, no.
Generally at this point the right way to track this down is to work with a copy of the document, and delete pages or objects in the document until you find the cause of the problem. Then look at it closely, perhaps look at the IDML file, or make it available so we can look at it.
It sounds like you have a workaround, but if you have time, it might worth trying to find the real problem.

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Is there a way to reduce a page size when exporting from InDesign? I have a 20 x 30 poster want to export at 50% and make the pdf @ 10 x 15. Thanks.

by print to pdf do U mean make a ps file instead of exporting, correct?
Well, here's the thing... the orig question was a generalization of what we are trying to do.
The actual file is 19 pgs of panels that are 20 x 30. We need to make pdfs for the client to look at on screen. The file is huge when we try to make pdfs by exporting... even at the smallest file size and then reduce file in Acrobat. We found that reducing the doc size & making pdf yields a much smaller and more manageable file size, but it takes very long to postscript. We were just trying to avoid that step. Thought for sure the was a way to reduce the output size when exporting.

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