Re: FLASH: JPG or GIF: what's the best setting?

[John Dowdell]

At 8:17 PM 7/13/0, cj wrote:

> But I've save the print screens at 1028x768, 800 x 600, 640 x 480

> (both as JPG & GIFs) and it looks terrible at all these settings

> when viewing it on a 800 x 600 monitor....


This may not be the core issue you're concerned about, I'm not sure, but

for what it's worth, screen captures are usually difficult to resize.

That's because most icons and screen fonts are designed on a pixel basis,

and resizing can blur things unacceptably.


(Resizing a screen capture can usually work if you're showing the overall

graphics on a screen... it's just hard when you're trying to get crisp text

or icons or cursors and such. Those UI elements are created for a specific

pixel resolution.)


If you're then putting those pixel-based images inside a SWF file, then you

may be getting a second resizing, in realtime, when the image is finally

viewed... the SWF file format does not specify a particular resolution like

pixel-based images do, and so we usually use bitmaps as a seasoning rather

than as the main course here.


I'm not sure whether either of these resizings might be the cause of what

you're not satisfied with, but is this material close to what you're seeing

there...?


jd






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