Re: FLASH: Raster to vector-dk

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At the exact moment of 99.12.11.14.09, her/his local time, Dustin Krysak

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> put forth:


> Have a question....

> 

> I have about 10 raster images, I need to use in my movie....

> I thought that I would trace them to vectors....

> 

> Well... that brought my finished movie up to 1.1 MB, where as if I just left 

> them as a BMP, the movie came in at 130 KB.


After tracing the images, are you deleting them from Flash's library?


> Curious... Are there any major disadvantages (besides the resize issue) to 

> leaving them as a bmp based graphic?


Flash's strength lies in its handling of *vector-based* images.


The "resize issue" that you seem to be seeing sounds illusory. It sounds to me

as if you aren't doing something "properly" ...


... unless, of course, you have some very complex bitmaps whose "integrity" you

are attempting to preserve "*within* Flash". When you find yourself within this

sort of territory, it *can* turn out that (highly detailed) bitmap traces turn

out, after being converted to vector shapes, to occupy more memory than the

original bitmap (though, remember, bitmaps are not as eloquently handled (e.g.,

*scaled*) as well as vector-driven images).


> I figure on my publish options, I will disallow the "menu", so the movie can't 

> be zoomed and so on....


HUH? What do you mean by "disallow the 'menu'"? I see no such option ...


HTH,


Ken Sherwood


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                    http://www.kensherwood.com/zenkat.htm


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