Indesign to swf creates grey border

I have asked this before. I have been experimenting with exporting a page turning swf file from Indesign. However, no matter what I do the resultant html file has a grey border. It seems to be generated in Indesign but I can't see any way of either changing the colour or getting rid of it. Any ideas?
Thanks
Ian

I´m afraid that straight from indesing, you won´t get rid of that. Fortunately there´s easy way to do better working html-wrapper. That method is calling swfObject. It´s a little bit different way of building code "around" SWF inside html.
You find handy (and free) SWFObject Generator tool for generating new html-file from address
http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/swfobject/generator/index.html
It´s online version, theres also an AIR based desktop version of it. Usage is quite simple. go to address above and give name of your swf and dimensions. You have to check dimensions while you export, you can see pixel size of your coming swf at the top of swf export window. Thats about it, generate code and copy/paste it to notepad or some other plaintext editor and name it with extension .html to same directory with your swf. (with AIR you can also use Save command)
If you need even more controls for your swf, you might want to test my eDocBrowser too. You find a sample of it from adress:
http://www.prepress.fi/eDocBrowser
And if you want to test it with your own file(s), you´ll find free demo version from address:
http://www.prepress.fi/edocbrowser_demo/eDB_DEMO.zip
UnZip pakage, export your file to eDB_DEMO folder with name 1_magazine.swf (overwrite old one) and open index.html to your browser from that folder.

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