PDF export to SWF with options

I would like to have an export feature to export my PDF's to a SWF file with navigation buttons, page curls, page location, zoom in/out features (magnifying glass showing), page print, and other additional interactivity that I can choose and/or customize.
The one that is included in the Indesign CS4 is not very intuitive and is very weak.

Many thanks. The batch option converts absolutely everything in a folder. Next time I'll move the EPS files to a new folder and disable the 'Open' command.

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And not export with it in a Resource folder, as i need to upload one file with music embedded within?
I am currently exporting from INDD but the interactive mp3 is exported in a seperate resource folder, and I wish to upload the SWF to a website home page as a single file, thanks!

Hello James,
a swf-file with a mp3 in it? I'm not sure to understand you in the right way.
I for my part made a Dreamweaver testwebsite which I called "INSERT Test with different types of media". You could have a look there to see whether it satisfies your expectations: Forum Video
Hans-Günter

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Any Thai character that contains a symbol above it (like an umlat in English) gets corrupted when exporting a report to PDF, yet the same report can be exported to Excel or Word without any issue.
See the following character - once with a symbol above one without:
ล้ ล
The PDF file will not display the first character - instead it displays the second character overlayed on a box (like you get when the font does not contain the required character)
If I create a text field in the Crystal designer, it does the same thing - but when I right click and edit, it displays correctly - until I click out of the field when the problem returns. So this suggests the problem is before the PDF export and maybe with the designer - but then why does it work if i export to Word?
I have tried may different fonts - including those specifically recommended and used by the Thais, but all have the same issue.
My work around at the moment is to use Word instead of PDF, as I do not believe there is a configuration change I can make that will resolve the issue, but would love to hear otherwise.
I am using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 version 13 running on Windows 7 x64. I have a beta 2 download of v14, but it requires a key code which i do not have, so as yet ahave been unable to verify if this issue is resolved in that version.
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Cheers
Jed

Thanks Don,
(Good to know that version 13 I am running is the correct one)
I have tried many UTF-8 fonts, with largely similar results, but this testing here is with Cordia New - a font largely aimed at Thai Language and the one our Thai customers always use.
I have confirmed that right click and export from the IDE still shows the box on certain characters - but note that the box does not replace these characters (as would be the case if they were missing) but rather overlays them - which is why my subject includes the word 'corrupt'
All testing so far in on my Windows 7 development machine - so no user issues are involved
The code if fairly simple at this stage - define and load a data set - then link it to the report and use the built in export to disk functions:
                OutboundSummary rpt = new OutboundSummary();
                rpt.SetDataSource(outboundSummary);
                string tempDir = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP") + "
                string filename = tempDir + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss");
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                rpt.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.WordForWindows, filename + ".doc");
If anyone wanted to verify, here is a piece of Thai text that will show the problem
ผลรวมแฟกซ์ที่ยังอยู่ในคิว
To better illustrate the problem, the attached image will help
[IMG]http://i55.tinypic.com/hweh42.jpg[/IMG]
I am coming to the conclusion that perhaps these characters are not single characters - at least do not appear as such with each font - and perhaps Windows does some magic to make them appear correctly. I can see that Word automatically converts them to a suitable font - i.e. a mixed language text file imports into word with different fonts for different languages - and you cannot change the font to one that does not support the language. I can specify Arial from Crystal which does not contain thai characters at all - but export to word and they show correctly.
Crystal spits the data out and Word converts it correctly, but acrobat does not - so maybe it is their fault?
I have all language packs on my machine - and doing Chinese next suggests that even if I find a thai font that worked, it would not work in chinese, so am thinking word or rtf might be the winner.
Cheers
Jed

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@James – to mark the container frames of the nonprinting images by a fill color, you could add the following lines of code in the for loop:
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But this approach will add a new problem for images, that only use a portion of the holding graphic frame. Or are only partly visible due to a clipping path or a clipping mask or totally transparent areas due to transparent pixels.
Already colored backgrounds will be recolored…
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2. The gray area with the big X will be applied also to parts of the images where no pixels are present (transparent pixels in PhotoShop or TIFF files).
To work around all these issues we need a more complex script that is building a path object around the transparent parts of an image or using an applied clipping path for that purpose and fill that with a gray tint (and maybe with an X).
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Hello...good people! I want to create an interactive PDF using a published FC swf (offline view version) with flv video and animation. The problem I'm having is with video playback inside the pdf. EVERYTHING ELSE WORKS EXCEPT VIDEO! It's as if Acrobat is not reading the asset folder (where the video file is located) created by FC. All animations work and even the video control (skin) appears! Just....no....video!
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Hi,
Interesting application for the Fc output. I tried this out and it seems to work fine. Here are the steps I went through.
Created the fxp file and output the result
Created the pdf
From inside Acrobat Pro, I selected the Multimedia > Flash Tool and then chose the area in the document where I wanted to place the Fc output
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I saved the pdf and then opened the file in the browser
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