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March 16, 2012 at 6:38 am #61815
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The preview panel shows you the SWF output – and SWFs placed in Indesign won't output to SWF and be playable – at least I can't it to work.

Apparently – SWFs placed in InDesign only work when they are exported to PDF. And to view the SWF preview in InDesign you need to use the Media Panel.

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