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Jared Hess
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May 16, 2008
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Best way to import a Camtasia .SWF File?

  • May 16, 2008
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I recently created a screen tutorial (as an .swf file) using Camtasia Studio 5 and would like to import the .swf I created into a topic of a Flash Web project I'm working on. I tried putting the .swf on in an .htm but RoboHelp crashes. It doesn't crash with other .swf files, but on this one it does.

The file plays fine if I double-click on the .swf inside Windows Explorer, so it seems a problem with RoboHelp.

Now, I can get the video to work inside the project if I copy the .swf file, the .js file, and the swf's .htm file manually copy the project folder. If I preveiw it CTRL + W at this point it works. If I build the project, the .swf and .htm (because I copied them manually) don't get included into the single source layout folder. I can probably add them manually there too and then publish, but there has to be a better way.

Anyone have any success with importing Camtasia .swf files into RH7 and could maybe give me some pointers so i don't have to manually copy files everywhere?
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Correct answer Jared Hess
Ah yes... baggage files *makes mental note* ... I keep forgetting about those. That seems to work. Thanks Rick.

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Jared Hess
Jared HessAuthorCorrect answer
Legend
May 22, 2008
Ah yes... baggage files *makes mental note* ... I keep forgetting about those. That seems to work. Thanks Rick.
RoboWizard
Inspiring
May 16, 2008
Hi Jared

You probably simply need to add all the related files to your Baggage Files folder.

Note that if your output is a .CHM file, I believe that Camtasia files have a problem with running inside a .CHM. Even if you add all the files.

Cheers... Rick