Re: FLASH: trying to shrink size of paragraph

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 01:50 AM 7/20/99 +0200, you wrote:

>>>>> >i'm floating a big paragraph of the same two letters repeated over

>>>>> >and over

>>>>> >across a page in a tweened animation. flash is running extremely

>>>>> >slow


<SNIP>


>the bitmap version is 16253 bytes in size, the vector version is 15142

>bytes: as I suspected, no significant difference in file size.

>


<SNIP>


 the bitmap version is, I guess (the movie is too short to measure

>the time accurately), approximately 4 times faster than the vector version

>of the movie, on my iMac "classic" (233 MHz G3).

>

>it's not that strange: flash has to render each individual character of the

>vector version and paste it to the screen, while it only has to copy & paste

>a block of pixels in the bitmap version of the movie, which is much simpler



I've seen Laurens' files and he's quite right (and I'm duly surprised).

Laurens, I suggested you post the .fla's to the Flasher ftp space; however,

I think your explanation is thorough and posting the .swf's there or on the

web would be an adequate demonstration. The difference in speed is

dramatic.  Thanks.


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