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[fatalLordes]

Okay, I'm obviously missing something very obvious here as I've created a logo for use on this site to replace the company_name_txt in the LOGO section. I've created it in Photoshop and resized it in there to the correct size for the SWI (222x110). Looks perfect in Photoshop and any other viewer. Even looks great in the SWI file. But as soon as it is exported and I look at it in a browser, it is all distorted. I've tried both JPG and PNG. A really large PNG version which is resized INSIDE the SWI seems to look the best, but still not great, but that isn't the way to do it as it makes the file large. As said, I've already resized it in Photoshop, so that there is no resizing necessary in SWI. I've also made sure that both the image and the section are placed on whole numbers in the transform panel (as I know point numbers can distort things). I've even tried setting the "smooth" option in Details but nothing helps.

What have I missed? Aghh!!! It's driving me bonkers so any help would be appreciated.

[fatalLordes]

I've also tried clicking on the image in the Outline panel, going into Details, and on the Export tab, changing compression from "Automatically choose" to "As imported", but it made no difference. Also tried ticking "Allow smoothing", but still nothing. Even tried deleting IE cache, just incase, but nothing. Argghh!! I figure it's something easy and simple but I'm missing it.

[fatalLordes]

Actually, one thing I have noticed is that if I take a ruler and measure the size of the SWF from shaded edge to shaded edge, it measures 21cm. But when in SwishMax and viewing the stage at 100%, the same space is just under 17.5cm. What gives? Why is it increasing for display in browser? That's the cause of my distortion I'd say and I just played the movie inside SwishMax and it's all good.

Help!

[fatalLordes]

Confirmed that Export Settings, HTML, that fullsize is set to false. And I looked at the HTML of the page and the object has the settings of 800 x 500, which is the stage size. Oh, I've just found something. My laptop is a 17" widescreen and it seems to be squishing the page in IE8. I view this on my desktop and everything looks normal. Anyone come across this and know how to stop IE8 (or the laptop, but I'm guessing it's IE8 as the graphic is SwishMax looks fine) from resizing things?

[fatalLordes]

Dang, thought I found it in IE8 Settings by disabling "Enable automatic image resizing", but it did nothing even after restart of IE

[fatalLordes]

Dang, not even <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"> seems to be working. It's definately IE8 that is the problem as it looks fine in everything else - IE8 just wants to stretch it!

[fatalLordes]

I give up. I don't know how to stop IE8 from distorting itself on my laptop screen. It can't be the laptop resolution settings as it displays fine everywhere else, but IE8 makes the SWF file larger. I don't know why but it is and nothing I try seems to stop it. Oh, I will also add that on the laptop I'm running Windows 7 and on the desktop, that is also running IE8 but doesn't distort, it is running XP. I can't even imagine where that would factor in.

[fatalLordes]

I FOUND IT! I stumpled across it actually. For some reason my IE8 on my laptop was set to more than 100%! I set it to 100% and, viola! It displays perfectly. Only took me 3 hours to figure it out! LOL. But at least I know now and hopefully it stops someone else going bonkers.