robva65
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Hi Barrett! First of all, I just wanted to apologize for the delay in responding...and it also seems that despite my attempt to split your earlier post into 2 separate posts, that I accidentally killed your post!!!! RATS! In any event, just to clear the air regarding the use of a logo to replace the default Adobe logo, there's a couple of things to keep in mind: First, it's always good practice to use vector artwork whenever you can...because unlike bitmap graphics (gifs, jpgs, pngs), vectors won't distort or pixelate if you resize/rescale a presentation (or the browser window to be more specific). I've also read similar comments about placing a "logo.swf' in the Template directory of a presentation. And while I'm at it, the course you viewed on Racial Competency was originally built using Breeze 5.1/Presenter 6 (the upgrading of our plugin occured after the course was being developed), so the process of including/replacing the logo is slightly different than what you'd do in the Presenter 7 environment. That said, the problem you described about how your logo seems to move over the play/pause button in the playbar area is more about how the swf file is dynamically positioned...rather than something being wrong with the logo itself. So let's talk about that next... For starters, back in Flash, what you might want to try is moving your logo to the far, left edge of the Flash stage. Remember...by the time the swf file is loaded into the presentation, there's roughly 15-25 pixels between it and the left-most edge of the playbar area anyway, so moving your logo to the left edge of your stage in Flash can only help. From there, publish the file and include in your presentation as you normally would. What I will tell you is this: it might actually be worth trying a slightly different approach. With Breeze 5/Presenter 6, the dimension of the logo.swf was sized at 50x29...I'd be curious to know what your results would be if you used that stage dimension rather than the recommended 47 x 27 size. I'm thinking that Presenter, because the logo.swf file is dynamically placed, might also dynamically resize the logo...and with extra pixels given to the width of the stage, it might actually help! Of course, you could always opt for a much simpler solution: removing the Adobe logo, leaving a blank area in the playbar. That's extremely easy to do. Simply create a blank, content-less 47 x 27 flash file, publish it and drop it into the Template directory. No more Adobe logo! Now...as for your second question...about sychronizing flash animations to ppt objects, I'd like to answer that in the Troubleshooting forum (this post already got too long!). I'll bet other folks have run into similar circumstances (or may have the same question!), so I'd like to capture it where others can access that info too! So stay tuned! Hope that helps, Rob
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