Hey Mohamed,

I think you called for me:) First off, thanks for the kind words. I am happy that I was able to help you with PDFs and SWFs.

I wish I could share more information with you about how to use the Overlay Creator, but the problem is that it is currently in beta. That means that I am not allowed to talk about it until it is shipping. This also means that no one (including me) will be putting out any videos on how to use these features until this software is released. And even if we could make videos, it would be silly to do it because everything changes so quickly. If I made a video about how to do a certain technique, the next week they might change that behavior and I would have to redo the video.

For the time being, if you have joined the beta for the Digital Publishing System you will probably have access to the forums where you should be able to ask questions and get help a particular problem that you may have. Like David said above, the PDF tutorial is quite good and should get you started.

Good luck!

I agree with Roland that InDesign is not meant to completely create an entire website. However, there are some steps that you can take to get your file size smaller in the resulting SWF file.

1. If there are repeating elements, be sure to put them on a master page and do not override them. This way, they will be treated as symbols and the file size will be smaller.

2. If you have any video, link to the video instead of embedding it. This way the user can stream it on demand.

3. Use JPGS at actual 100% placed size. Photoshop can export much smaller JPGs than InDesign at better quality. If you use these optimized JPGS your site will hopefully be smaller.

However, if you really want to get your file size down you will want to export your layout to FLA and bring it into Flash Pro. From there you can use action-script and symbols to make a much smaller file.

If you change the properties of the navigation controller in the media panel, you can prevent people from viewing your video full screen. This way the video will always be played at 100%.

Hey Lance.

There is nothing wrong with your file. Flash it kind of touchy about security and it wants to play it safe with web links when you export a SWF file and test it locally on your machine.

Your clients will never see this error. If you need to test your links, place it on a website and everything will work as expected. Otherwise, if you follow the directions in that dialog box you can setup a “trusted folder” on your desktop for testing all of your exported links.

I hope that helps you with your problem.

Fritz

Those are bookmarks/hyperlink destinations.

Christina,

Your display performance is probably set to typical (which means it doesn't look as good, but the program runs quicker). To change this on just this image (illustrator file), select the image and go to View > Display Performance > High Quality Display. If you want everything to look High Quality all the time, close all of your documents and edit your preferences > display performance.

Fritz

Christina,

Your display performance is probably set to typical (which means it doesn't look as good, but the program runs quicker). To change this on just this image (illustrator file), select the image and go to View > Display Performance > High Quality Display. If you want everything to look High Quality all the time, close all of your documents and edit your preferences > display performance.

Fritz

Creating a report of style overrides will also work in CS4.