How to convert Flash (SWF) to GIF

Howdy Folks,

I have this one banner ad on my website that's flash (SWF) and for one reason or another it forces the whole line to be a link instead of just the images. A couple of users are accidentally clicking on it and are complaining about it. It's annoying to me too. I don't know enough about flash to know if it's the flash file itself or my advertising system's way of handling flash files.

Anywho I'm figuring if I just convert it to a GIF I can treat it as a regular image and be done with it. Does anyone know how to do this? I Googled it and found a few downloads but the sites don't look exactly reputable hence I'm hesitant to download and install the program. Thanks in advance for any help.

-Dan

 

Off the bat, the image as been incorrectly sliced or intentionally sliced this way so that the whole area (line in your case) a clickable link. Could also be a closing tag missing. Or worse, the ads themselves.

 

I didn't see nothing out of place in the source. I did noticed who ever did the ad was horrible at it since the ad goes OUT of the 468x60. Screenshot below.

 

Thanks Ladies. It was murder just get the thing working in the first place, maybe I should just leave well enough alone?

 

Hmm, your other ads seem fine, that one seems to be the only ad causing trouble. Dunno if it's possible to ask the people who made this ad to check if something in their file is wrong. Your other ads up there seem to work fine., so it can't be something you did(?)

 

Thanks FMB, I have a feeling it's the source file too. Originally the company wanted to load quotes into the file from a remote XML file and that wouldn't work, so, I think this one was put together rather fast. I guess I'll chase them down after the holidays.

Just for kicks here's my banner systems template for flash ads:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function popupGAB$Y()
{
var link$Y = "$ad[url]";
if (link$Y.length)
{
window.open("$ad[url]");
}
}
// -->
</script>
<div style="<if condition="$ad[url]">cursor: pointer; cursor: hand;<else />cursor: default;</if>" onclick="popupGAB$Y();">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,67,0"<if condition="$ad[width]"> width="$ad[width]"</if><if condition="$ad[height]"> height="$ad[height]"</if> id="$ad[imgemb]" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="movie" value="$ad[img]<if condition="$ad[url]">?clickTAG=$ad[url]</if>" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="$ad[img]<if condition="$ad[url]">?clickTAG=$ad[url]</if>" wmode="transparent" menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"<if condition="$ad[width]"> width="$ad[width]"</if><if condition="$ad[height]"> height="$ad[height]"</if> name="$ad[imgemb]" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>

Nothing looks out of order to me.