Exported SWF dimensions

[fabio.vitali]

I have to export a PPT presentation in SWF format. Opening and exporting it through OOo causes a strange behaviour: with PPT page format identical, the exported SWF has sometimes different dimensions (_width and _height).

I need to load the SWF in a Flash application that "play" the slideshow, and I need all the presentations have the same dimensions. Can someone explane me the way in witch the JOD converter calculates the SWF width and height?

thanks, Fabio Vitali

[acknak]

Sorry you never got an answer to your question--have you found any solution yet?

[fabrix.xm]

Sorry you never got an answer to your question--have you found any solution yet?

i've got the same problem some time ago.
Seems that OOo export the swf with a stage of 720x576px, but places also object "off stage".
When you ask _widht and _weight of a movieclip, flash returns the bounding-box of the movieclip.
The solution I've used is to calculate the size to resize to in proportion to the default width of 720x576

something like:

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var OOSWF_WIDTH = 720
var OOSWF_HEIGHT = 576

function setOOoDim(mc, nw,nh) {
 sw = ( nw / OOSWF_WIDTH) * 100.0;
 sh = ( nh / OOSWF_HEIGHT) * 100.0;
 mc._xscale = sh;
 mc._yscale = sw;
}

"mc" is the movieclip with the OOo slide show
eg:
setOOoDim ( mcSlide, 100,55);
scale the "mcSlide" to have the slides to 100x55px


(note i don't have flash here right now, I can't test the code )