Shockwave file (.swf) not recognized

Question

Hi there
I wonder if anyone can help me - I've created an animation in
Freehand MX 11.02 (for Mac) and exported it as an .swf file. When I
tried to import it into Power Point 2004 for Mac, the error message
came up, saying that it's not a recognized movie file. When I
looked under the help section for Power Point, .swf files can be
imported into Power Point. Could it perhaps be any setting that's
wrong when I save it as an .swf file? I've tried to save it also in
the uncompressed format, but still no luck.
Will appreciate any input.
Best regards
G

Answer 1

>> I wonder if anyone can help me - I've created an
animation in Freehand MX
>> 11.02 (for Mac) and exported it as an .swf file.
When I tried to import it
>> into Power Point 2004 for Mac, the error message
came up, saying that it's not
>> a recognized movie file. When I looked under the
help section for Power Point,
>> .swf files can be imported into Power Point. Could
it perhaps be any setting
>> that's wrong when I save it as an .swf file? I've
tried to save it also in the
>> uncompressed format, but still no luck.
>
> Flash animations can be created with several settings,
as old FreeHand is the swf format is probably very old too.
Probably older than PowerPoint 2004 will accept. Export (and
import) filters in FreeHand or not very good and the swf file
format FreeHand creates may be just very incompatible.
I checked PowerPoint 2007 (Win) and it seems that swf files
can be included but they can't be imported but like images but a
controller must be used. I tried it and it works. PowerPoint can't
play swf files but flash player must be installed. Check PowerPoint
documentation for more information.
This is from PowerPoint 2007 help file:
Install the Flash Player on your computer.
In PowerPoint, in Normal view, display the slide on which you
want to play the animation.
Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click PowerPoint
Options.
Click Popular, and then under Top options for working with
PowerPoint, select the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box,
and then click OK.
Note The Ribbon is a part of the Microsoft Office Fluent
user interface
On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click More
Controls.
In the list of controls, click Shockwave Flash Object, click
OK, and then drag on the slide to draw the control.
Resize the control by dragging the sizing handles.
Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object, and then click
Properties.
On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie property.
In the value column (the blank cell next to Movie), type the
full drive path, including the file name (for example,
C\:MyFile.swf) or uniform resource locator (URL) to the Flash file
that you want to play.
To set specific options for how the animation plays, do the
following, and then close the Properties dialog box:
To play the file automatically when the slide is displayed,
set the Playing property to True. If the Flash file has a
Start/Rewind control built into it, you can set the Playing
property to False.
If you don't want the animation to play repeatedly, set the
Loop property to False.
So it is not a compatibility issue. Just like many users here
blame Adobe for just about everything I have a bad habit of blaming
Macromedia - without checking first.
Jukka