Comments on: Beware First and Last Page of SWF Exported as Spreads

By: Kara

Kara — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:25:37 +0000

ghetto answer: make the first and last page the same color as the background of the SWF file. R:153 G:153 B:153

By: Marisa

Marisa — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:53:24 +0000

Has this problem been solved? I want to have a cover and back page. Any other programs I can use?

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:22:16 +0000

Thanks for responding to my question, David. And thank Petteri and Arun for your suggestions – both are good ideas that I will use.

Cheers,

Steven

By: Arun Kumar MP

Arun Kumar MP — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:26:43 +0000

I prefer the pdf version too for most of my work, but sometimes the swf page turn looks cool for a brochure. In those cases this is what I do.

1. Add two more pages to your document. Instead of a single first page and last page, combine the two into a spread. Now the entire document will be spreads of two pages.

2. First and last page, fill it with a solid background (R – 153, G – 153, B – 153). Thats the color of the html background. Start content and page numbering from the second page. (I prefer to change the colors to solid black: Changing both the solid fills in the indesign document and modifying the html background color)

3. Thats it. The first and last pages merge with the background and all you see are the individual facing first and last pages, and everything in between.

4, Example file is in this link
http://www.identitidesign.com/test/test.html

By: Petteri Paananen

Petteri Paananen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:00:55 +0000

My advice is: Make you first spread two-sided, like other spreads and use that extra empty space for something. If you dont have Table of Contents, may be you could put it to left side of cover page. TOC is active in SWF, when user click some item in it, SWF jumps to right page.

Once I put small thumbnail images of every spread there, converted them to buttons and assigned goto page actions to them. (with export command, it´s possible to create jpeg-files from spreads, and with very low resolution (20ppi) they become very small) That might work if you have fairly short document…. It took some 15 minutes to create thumbnails, place them and assign actions for 28-page document.

Or you can create Index for products or persons or whatever if you need alphabetical list of content. Index is also active. And cross-references too…

If you have next/previous page buttons etc. you can put there some instructions how to use them in SWF. And you can also tell that there are some functions behind mouses right button, like (crappy) zoom …

And of course you can put there some hyperlinks to other resources like www-pages or PDF-version of you publication…