Comments on: File Sizes for Exporting SWF from Adobe InDesign CS4 are Huge Because Some Settings Simply Do Not Work

By: Victor Coronel

Victor Coronel — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:11:37 +0000

Hi there. I am having problem exporting a 40+ pages catalog from Indesign (6.0.2) to swf. The quality is poor, fuzzy images, even having selected size to 100% and jpg quality to maximum (also curve variable to maximum.

By: Nicholas Piasecki

Nicholas Piasecki — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:02:02 +0000

Thanks, Michael. Your follow-up and commitment is impressive and means a lot.

By: Michael Ninness

Michael Ninness — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:53:40 +0000

Hello Nicholas — just wanted to let you know that the 6.0.2 dot release for InDesign CS4 went live today. Among other things, the JPEG Quality bug in SWF Export has been fixed and is part of the dot release. It is available through the Adobe Update Manager, and will be available from Adobe.com shortly as well.

Cheers,

Michael Ninness
InDesign Senior Product Manager

By: Nicholas Piasecki

Nicholas Piasecki — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:08:02 +0000

Thanks for the response, Michael. I did note the workaround but we weren’t going to do that for a 20-page, image-intensive catalog. Plus, my boss was paranoid about getting mixed up and sending the low-res version to the printing company.

I’m glad to hear that a solution is in the works.

By: Michael Ninness

Michael Ninness — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:05:44 +0000

Nicholas — I understand your frustration. Yes, it is unfortunate that this bug was not discovered earlier. That said, once it was discovered, we took it seriously and will be providing a dot-release that addresses this issue in the near future. As for not catching it before we shipped, well, all I can say is that software development is not a precise science all the time. Software is written by humans after all, and as you know we are not perfect. All we can do in these situations is be honest, admit the mistake and provide a fix as soon as possible. In that regard, I argue that Adobe has a very good track record of being responsive to our customers. In the meanwhile, in the very same post on the User to User forum that you quoted me from, I provided a workaround to control the file size of SWFs exported from InDesign CS4. As a reminder, that workaround was to place JPEG images into InDesign at the dimensions you want to use them at. You can use Photoshop or Fireworks to optimize your JPEGs to the quality/file size you want. When you export to SWF and XFL from InDesign CS4, JPEGs will go out as they came in. Cheers,

Michael Ninness
InDesign Senior Product Manager