The last URL you suggested ( ) begins to touch on how to edit the exported file in Flash but trying to re-build the InDesign page flips from withinin Flash is beyond my skills at least at this point in time. It seems like none of the page-flip transition information gets exported. As a total Newbie, the problem I'm having in doing this is that an XFL export from InDesign only puts each spread on the Flash timeline as individual frames. That is, your reply seems to confirm that in order to add any substantial degree of interactive navigation to an InDesign layout the layout must be exported as an XFL file and edited in Flash instead of using the simple SWF export. If I MUSTexport to xfl and use flash in oder to accomplish my goals, then comments on how to do this in Flash are also welcome. I'd like to add a Button Action to the 'Stop' buttons that would cause the automatic flipping (as requested in my request #2) to stop at whatever page is displayed when the stop button is pressed. I'd like to add a Button Action to the 'Fast Forward' and 'Fast Rewind' buttons that would cause the pages to flip continuously in the corresponding direction until the first r last page is reached.ģ. I can't seem to figure out how to do it.Ģ. I want to get rid of the excess gray area around the flip book. Help on how to do these things would be greatly appreciated.ġ. Here's the items that I want to add / modify in my existing 'test of concept' book posted above. I prefer not to do this because I find it hard enough to learn InDesign for the first-time let alone trying to learn Flash simultaneously. I know that a more experienced person would probably do the layout in InDesign and then export to an XFL file so that the navigation details could be built in Flash. The link given above was produced in this manner.

I want to build this entire flip-book from inside InDesign and use InDesign CS4's Export to SWF capability to produce the web-ready SWF and HTML files. I've posted this first draft at the following URL (2MB) so that you can better understand my questions in the context of the book I'm building: I've created a first draft of a flip-book as a 'test of concept'. I've never used InDesign or Flash before, so please don't assume that I know something just because it is so simple that I should.

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