Re: FLASH: import graphic / file size

[Marc Hoffman]

At 10:49 AM 1/12/99 -0800, you wrote:

> 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.


Other than color Threshold setting, all your settings create the most

complex (and therefore most accurate) vector, and this is why you are

seeing little or no reduction in file size.  Play with the settings to end

up with fewer vector points, and that should help.  At some point, however,

you'll start losing the shape that distinguishes the text characters.

Adobe Streamline may do a better job at tracing, but it also has a learning

curve (and, of course, costs money).  It may be you can get better results

if you do more prep in PhotoShop, such as increasing contrast or even

converting to bitmap mode (that is, black and white) under image>mode, then

try Flash's autotrace again.  This failing, I think you're stuck with hand

tracing.  I know much of your pages have a hand-drawn style, so this might

not be a bad option at all, just time-consuming.  I believe you can map

your hand-drawn vector text characters to a font set, but I don't know how

to do that.


Just out of curiosity, how many text characters are you talking about?



Marc Hoffman

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