Re: FLASH: file size-can be better

[John Dowdell]

At 2:25 PM 1/12/0, AL Lyman wrote:

>I exported a movie as a jpg.

>Nice scenic bg from Webshots.com.

>Using Gif Wizard, with minimal loss of detail (couldn't tell any)

>the file size was reduced by 80%.

>Several more 70,72-73 etc %.

>

>Let us hope file size optimazation in Flash-5 is the #1 priority. AL



If a core question is "Can I use particular JPEG compression in Flash 4?"

then yes, if you import a JPEG-compressed photo then you can tell Flash to

use the file's original compression rather than recompress it.


(Please remember, though, that resolution-dependent photographs are not

usually the main ingredient in a resizable vectorbased animation.)


jd







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