Re: FLASH: Raster to vector-dk

[Dustin Krysak]

In response to unique:


 I have tried deleting them from the library.... and the 1MB size was after deleting them.


What I mean by the "resizing issue", is how a BMP pixelizes when scaling. And yes... the BMP images are complex and I am trying to preserve them. And in this case, the file sizes are much higher when tracing to a BMP.


And as for the "disallow menu" option I was speaking about...

If you go into the publish options (flash 4)


file>publish settings> HTML tab


there are some playback options, and if you uncheck the "display menu" option... well, once your SWF file is published and is viewed through the HTML template.... it takes all of the zoom and scaling options away from the right click menu. So then no one can resize or scale your graphics. This is just a way to ensure that anyone viewing a project that has BMP based graphics, can't scale it and give it a pixelized look.


Hope this clarifies everything.


Thanks.


     -DK



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------

From: unique <

uniqueptd [dot] net

>

Reply-To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:29:55 -0500


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

<

flashvertca [dot] com

> 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


                         *zenkat: the Flash trailer*

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


kensherwood.com

http://www.kensherwood.com





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