FLASH: offending compression on imported bitmaps

[Erik Kittlaus]

does flash have to impose its own compression on all imported images, 

whether they're brought in as either gifs (compressed) or picts 

(uncompressed)? i'm getting some ugly artifacts on a logo image that 

i can't seem to avoid either way.


it previews just fine in authoring mode, yet upon export there are problems.


when i bring it in as a gif i set the compression settings in the 

bitmap properties dialog box to lossless (png, gif) in the hopes that 

this will preserve the gif compression - and not add any more of its 

own. no matter. when i go to save it out as a swf i get the artifacts.


when i bring it in as a pict (mac) using the photo setting (jpg) - 

which i know is not the way to go - i get the same results.


surely there must be a way to import gifs (logos and such) and retain 

image quality upon export.


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