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

> 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.

Jukka

> 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.

Jukka

>> 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.

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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.

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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

>> 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

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