Re: FLASH: Raster to vector-dk

[John Croteau]

Hi Dustin,


> 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.

Some images are better left as vectors.

A simple autotracing may not be a true indication of whether your images

would be better as vactors or not. There is a lot of technique and

optimization in many bitmap conversions.

Though Flash handles vectors better than bitmaps. a 9 to 1 increase in

file size means an awful lot of complexity which Flash also does not

handle very well.


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

> to leaving them as a bmp based graphic?

You should supply your Flash files at a fixed size, not scaling to fill

the window.


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

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

Why disable this feature even if you are using bitmaps?

If your bitmaps are high enogh resoltion they should do fine when zoomed

in on (not as good as vectors of course).


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