I couldn’t be bothered about this until recently. I had to design a few flash banner and the requirement was to have a 1 pixel border with #333333 stroke color. Cis!

So I gave it a try. Did a quick 300×250 pixel banner and wallah!

300×250 flash ad with missing borders

Notice the missing border on the right? I found out how to get it to work. The one below is being treated and currently all four sides of the borders is showing. How did I do it?

300×250 flash ad with perfect border

The solution is rather simple.

Open your swf file. Assuming that your border is 300×250 pixel with a 1 pixel stroke.

Change the stroke size to 2 pixel. I use #333333 as my border color. On your align palette, click on the align “To stage” and align top edge and left edge. If the setting is correct, your X and Y setting should be set to 0.0.

Go back to your scene. Click on your border layer and align top edge and left edge. Be sure to click “To stage” so the border will align with the stage. Duh!

Publish your flash and you’re done! Yay!