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Embedded swf displays as black rectangle instead of "poster"

2007-11-09 14:31:01

gfevrier

Registered: Nov 9 2007

Posts: 3

I embedded a swf movie (from Captivate 3) into Acrobat 8 3-D, but it displays as a black rectangle in Acrobat, and a blank white area in Adobe Reader 8. The movie does play, but I'm trying to figure out why, if I have the poster setting correctly in Acrobat, I get the black rectangle and not a graphic of the first slide of the movie.

Thanks

2007-12-20 08:33:25

lkassuba

Registered: Jun 28 2007

Posts: 3636

Check the suggestion for this at the following posting:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/ask_an_expert/questions/view/2669/

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

2008-01-09 10:50:23

tplumer

Registered: Dec 1 2005

Posts: 122

Alternately, if this doesn't work, you can always add a poster image to the movie. It is an added step (to create the image), but it isn't too hard. In fact, you should be able to export the background of that first slide from Captivate and use it directly as the poster image.

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