Flash e card

karmaman's picture

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Hi I am not sure this is the correct section or indeed if it is within the remit of the forum.
I have just made a flash e card to wish clients merry Christmas and remind people I am still around.
I am having problems with how to e mail this swf to them.
Amy sugestions?
Many thanks.

pr0gr4mm3r's picture

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I think it would be best to host the eCard somewhere and email people links to it.

karmaman's picture

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Thanks, I was hoping to be able to send th swf so it ran when they opened the mail. Any more thoughts?

greg's picture

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I have no previous experience in this to give any advice ... but ..

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15578&slice...

I think that's also perhaps what pr0gr4mm3r was getting at

decibel.places's picture

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You cannot embed a swf in an email -

You can host it somewhere, or perhaps upload it to YouTube (I think you would need to convert it to flv) - then link to that in an email.

You can embed a thumbnail as a linked image in an email, using mult-part mime.

In IE you can easily paste an image hosted on a web site in Yahoo Mail.

Another option would be converting the swf to animated GIF which could be embedded in the email - however many people turn off loading images in email.

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