# Help! Limiting the published SWF's dimensions to those of the stage

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-limiting-the-published-swfs-dimensions-to-those-of-the-stage/195330
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**Created:** [July 31, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-limiting-the-published-swfs-dimensions-to-those-of-the-stage/195330 "2006-07-31T00:07:20Z")
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### Author: ![FlashPirateYarr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@FlashPirateYarr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlashPirateYarr)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-limiting-the-published-swfs-dimensions-to-those-of-the-stage/195330/1 "2006-07-31T00:07:20Z")

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I’ve run into a problem in the “Programming an RPG” tutorial from SeiferTim, but it’s a problem that affects all of my Flash use. In the tutorial, the author has you move a movieclip off the stage (-50, -50) in order to get rid of it, but when I publish the SWF and enlarge the display window, the graphic is hanging out at (-50, -50), which is visible.

My question is: is there any way to limit the boundaries of the published SWF to whatever the size of the stage is?