RE: [Swftools-common] clipping a swf file - swfbbox/swfcombine

[Mark A. Lowe]

Thanks for that Matthias, but I'm a little confused as to what you mean by
hardcoding the real file dimensions?

My viewer Flash app uses an XML file to load in swfs to a page flip
component - the XML defines the pages at 900x1273.
But when it loads this swf in, the page is scaled down to fit into the
900x1273 viewer size. Is there no way of clipping/masking the elements
outside the 900x1273 boundaries?

Cheers,

Mark.


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Matthias Kramm
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] clipping a swf file - swfbbox/swfcombine

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:10:18PM +1100, Mark A. Lowe <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Is there any way to clip the file so when it load it into my page-flip
Flash
> application it comes in at 900x1273?

Unfortunately not- Flash player will always report a wrong bounding
box for files like these. Your safest bet is to hardcode the real file
dimensions somewhere (in the viewer or in some xml file).

Greetings

Matthias