Re: FLASH: Raster to vector-dk

[Michael Penne]

--- Dustin Krysak <

flashvertca [dot] com

> wrote:

> Have a question....

> 

> 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.


Yup, photographic bitmaps, if traced to retain their original detail,

usually create much larger files when traced, vectors are mathmatical

equations that define the shapes of your image, so simple images, with

few curves and colors are quite small, however when flash creates a

vector equation to describe complex images, the size of the equation is

often larger than the per-pixel data of the bitmap.


PS, deleting bmp files from the library after tracing should not affect

the size of the swf, as flash publishs to swf only the files that are

on stage in the movie.

> 

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

> issue) to leaving them as a bmp based graphic?


Not really.  You can also compress the images to jpegs in something

like fireworks or image ready that gives you more control than the %

slider in flash, then make sure 'use imported jpeg data' is checked

(2ble click the jpeg in the library).


> 

> I figure on my publish options, I will disallow the "menu", so the

> movie can't be zoomed and so on....


Sounds like a plan!


> opinions? Suggestions?

> 



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