FLASH: import graphic / file size

[mingo]

Hi,


Due to the outline font problem (with my chinese software), I have to input

the chinese characters in Photoshop and save them as PNG file before I can

use it in Flash.


When I imported the PNG file into flash, but the effect isn't very clear

and this make the file size rather big too. So I activate the "trace

bitmap" function, to create a vector graphic. I used the below settings as

recommended in the Macromedia Help to get a result that looks most like the

original bitmap. 


color Threshold : 100

Minimum Area : 1 pixel

Curve Fits : pixel

Corner Threhold : many corners


After doing that, I deleted the imported graphic symbols in the library. I

realised that the image does appeared clearer now...but it doesn't reduce

the file size much.


For a four frames movie, each frame with a png file (less than 20KB/file),

and a button, the fla file is already 800+KB and the swf is 200KB...(big

right ?)


Is there anyway that I can reduce these further ? My PNG file are just

plain white background with black chinese characters...I even use the lasso

tools to delete the white background after importing to Flash..but this

doesn't seems to decrease the file size !?


Is there anything that I can do to reduce my file size ??


Thanks for your advise.


mingo




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