I think I am having the same problem as "j3n0" in the original post. I am trying to export a 12 page booklet to an interactive swf file. It's fine apart from the fact that, if the viewer decides to "play" the file, it races through the 12 pages in (I'm guessing) 0.5 seconds. This is especially annoying since the default option is for it to be looped which makes it fit for nothing short of inducing an epileptic fit! Surely there must be a way to slow this down by specifying the delay between page transitions but, if there is, I can't find it in the menus, in the help, online or simply searching Google. If I export to Flash, I can set the time for each page but lose the interactivity and the page curl transitions.

Can anyone help on this issue? (I understand the comment from the MVP, however, the viewer has no control over playback speed in Flash viewer either!)

You have to separate these two things; exporting to SWF and exporting to FLA (Flash Professional). There´s huge difference between these two options.

SWF is ready to use package which has page transitions and most of the interactive features from InDesign included to the file. End-user opens SWF into a Flash Player (or web-browser if html-wrapper file has been generated)

FLA is just a starting point for the project. You suppose to open FLA into Flash Professional and finalize the project there. And I have to warn you guys that you really need to know what you are doing if you want to have something deasent as a result. Some of the interactivity you have possibly created in InDesign won´t transfer to Flash, you have to re-generate those features in Flash. Page Transitions is one thing you will lose during FLA export.

If only thing you need is just stop that "epileptic" flickering in Flash, here´s a small tutorial how to do it.

1) First I created 3 page InDesign document. First page is red, second green and third one is blue (image1)... Then I exported it as FLA and opened it in Flash Professional.

Image 1: 3 pages in indesign

2) As you can see, there´s an element called timeline. There´s 3 small black circles in timeline´s frame 1, 2 and 3 (image2). Those keyframes are actually those pages I had in InDesign. InDesign > FLA export process turn indesign pages to Flash Keyframes (page content in keyframe has been wrapped inside element called MovieClip but that´s another story and we dont need to go there now)

Image2: Timeline in Flash Professional and 3 keyframes in it.

3) Problem is that this export process does not add stop commands to those frames. It means that once you hit the play, it´s like a movie. Frames will be played very fast. Flash is after all meant for creating movies, not magazines...=) So you have to add those stop commands yourself.

4) Click the small black circle in frame 1 with black arrow tool, it will be selected. (image 3)

5) Choose Window > Code Snippets. Code Snippets window opens (image 3)

6) Open Timeline Navigation group and double click Stop At This Frame (image 3).

Actions window opens and you will see stop(); command there (image 4).

A small character a appears above small circle in frame 1.

Image 3: Select first keyframe, open Snippets panel and double-click Timeline Navigation > Stop at this Frame

Image 4: Actions panel and stop(); code-snippet in it.

7) Repeat steps 4-6 to frame 2 and 3. Now you should see character a in above all 3 circles (image 5)

Image 5: Character a (means action attached to frame) above all 3 keyframe circles

8) Test the movie by choosing Control > Test Movie

Now your movie shouls stop at first frame (= first page). Your next challend is to think how your can navigate inside your document. You will need buttons or some other navigational elements which can be used for that.

That´s the case I´m afraid. Pages of multi-page/spread SWF files can be turned by user only. InDesign SWF is meant for creating magazines, not slideshows I guess.

I have made a small free utility that may or may not help you with this. You can download a package from:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17227987/PageTurnerV3/PageTurnerV3.zip

It work like this:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17227987/PageTurnerV3/index.html

UnZip the package to your harddrive, overwrite issue.swf by exporting your SWF from indesign. Open index.html to browser.

I think that system fits your SWF to the screen no matter what size it is but if it doesn´t, try to export your SWF with height of 630px (width depends on the shape of your doc)