Resizing options for best quality

We all know that resizing a captivate movie results in fairly
poor quality. On the web it seems many swfs resize automatically
based on the size of the window they are in - the quality always
seems excellent even when reduced in size.
But when I pop open my movie in a new window, I tried making
the window size pop open smaller than the movie (also made the
window allowed to be resized) but the captivate swf does not
resize. Is there a trick to this I'm missing? I'm not using
Captivate's html code to add the swf to the page...
Thanks!

Hi jb3710 and welcome to our community
I know you said you aren't using the Captivate supplied HTML
page, but you did say you were displaying the SWF inside a web
page. Perhaps a custom page. If you didn't use HTML code and simply
pointed at the .SWF, you would see the SWF resize according to your
browser. Because the SWF is being presented from an HTML page, the
HTML code normally reserves a specific area for the Flash to play
in. Hence, no scaling occurs.
You mention that "On the web it seems many swfs resize
automatically based on the size of the window they are in - the
quality always seems excellent even when reduced in size.". Often
you are simply viewing files created in Flash. And there is a world
of difference between what Flash creates vs what Captivate creates.
Indeed, both formats are SWF, but a Flash created SWF generally
uses vectors to specify the images and animation. Vectors look good
at any size, because they are simply instructions telling the
computer what to draw where. Captivate uses Bitmaps. And the same
principles that govern resizing from inside Captivate before
publishing also factor into the mix if you just allow the result to
scale in the browser.
Hopefully something here was helpful... Rick

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