Using Xara 3D Maker 7 With Web Designer Premium 365

Good Friday Evening All,
Here is my question: Can some one give me the A, B, C, D's in bullet points how to place a animation produced using Xara 3D Maker 7 onto a Xara Web Designer Premium 365 web page? I would think these 2 programs would work well together, but I am having major problems. Here is what I've done:

1 Open Xara 3D and go to file > Open and select my Xara 3D project file.
2. Go to file > export animation
3. Click the drop down menu next to "Save as type" and select "Flash Bitmap (swf")
4. Type the name of my file.
5. Remember which foldr I saved the file to and where to find it.
6. Open my copy of Xara Designer Premium 365
7. Go to File>Import
8. Select "Flash PlaceHolder (*.swf) from the list located near the bottom.
9. Navigate to the folder that I exported animation file and click on it.
10. Go to File > Preview Page to see how the page will look once it's been published. I should see the animation, but I don't. Do I need to draw a "place holder" on the page where I want the animation to go?
What am I doing wrong please? Thank you all who respond.

musicman

Try this and let us know if it works.

Draw a rectangle the same size as your animation.

In Website Properties > Placeholder > Replace with Flash. browse and select your Flash file.

You would think that Xara 3D and Web Designer would work together. But...

Following on from Gary's suggestion:

A bit more:

Good Saturday Morning GW Preister and Egg Bramhill, I just wanted you all to know how much I appreciate your very quick response. I wanted to get back to you before I have breakfast. I will devote myself to your instructions and see if I've got it. I will be back in touch soon. I'm feeling very upbeat now with your help. Thanks you so much.

musicmanRobert:D

Good Saturday Evening Egg Bramhill and GWPRIESTER I sure do thank you and wanted to get back to let you know what's going on. Actually, I finally did get a copy of my Xara 3D Maker 7's file. However, it turned out to show up as a double. In other words, there appeared to be one on top of the other. The main thing is, because of you, I am on the right track. Also changing the width to 457 and height to 225 appears to make a difference, although I don't understand why. I am now going to keep working with your instructions and am happy to do so.

Robert :)

If there appears to be a double, select the double and delete it. If both copies disappear then we need to delve deeper.

Hi Robert

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Also changing the width to 457 and height to 225 appears to make a difference, although I don't understand why

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No, they're not magic numbers. When you export from X3D and choose crop, the export window gives you the dimensions of the cropped animation. Note these & set the placeholder size to match ;)

Hello all and thank you for sticking with me on this. Now, what I notice is that the first letter at the beginning and the last 2 letters at the end of the sentence are chopped off for some reason. However, now at least from your great guidance I am able to import properly. I am now hard at work on this problem.

Robert :)

Ensure the font size is set to 'Fit to Width'. This should crop correctly then.

Dear Egg Bramhill,
Thank you so much. I will check that out right now.

Robert :)

Good Sunday Evening Egg Bramhill and all,
Not too long ago got home from church but wanted to get back to you as soon as I could. Looks like all is well right now. I've just got to use your process enough until I get use to and remember it. Thanks so much. This ability expands what I can do to make a web page look better.

robert :)

Hello again Egg Bramhill and GWPreister again,
Based on info provided, I am moving foward slow but study. As you may know, I've been using Serif's WebPlus X7 over the past year and never really took a look at my version of Xara WebDesigner 365, to the extent I missed the update and had to recently pay $60 plus to get it. So, with help from here I am learning the basics. I hope I can get answers to these questions.

1. Will the copy of the WebPlus website be overwritten with my new copy of Xara website once uploaded to the web or do I have to somehow erase the version that is on the web right now?

2. If I were to have a hard drive melt down or have to change computers, will all the info plus the updates from Xara be maintained so that I can move them to another computer? My primary interest is, will I be left with just the basic Xara Web Designer 365 that's on my disk and not all of the info I've saved to include the updates, etc? Thanks all. Please, everyone have a safe and blessed 4th of July.

robert:)