# Publish setting - State of the art solutions

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/publish-setting-state-of-the-art-solutions/217607>\
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**Created:** [February 28, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/publish-setting-state-of-the-art-solutions/217607 "2007-02-28T09:19:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pup\_100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Pup\_100](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pup_100)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/publish-setting-state-of-the-art-solutions/217607/1 "2007-02-28T09:19:25Z")

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I’m sorry this is old ground & covered a 1000 times before but 4 years into learning Flash I still don’t fully understand how I should be publishing a movie or to be more exact what settings to use.

In using MX2004

From what I can understand the standard approach seems to be :

1. Set the stage to the smallest size that a users monitor is likely to be set to 785 x400

2. Set “Publish Settings – Dimensions to “Match Movie.”

3.If users are using a higher resolution it’s either tough luck or you can make say 3 movies of different dimensions – test the browser for it’s res. & have the correct movie load in a runtime.

4.Fiddle about with the properties of the “Stage object” & use the “align” property to position elements correctly-ish in the browser regardless of publish settings.

Can anyone tell me if I’m wide of the mark in these assumptions & if so what is the correct way to set the movie size in publish settings

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