Re: FLASH: jpeg Compression ? and Flash

[Laura Mollett]

> Now I'm really confused... Are you sure about this? I have "read" elsewhere

> (sorry, don't have the post to quote) that Flash does a lousy job with

> compression. It was suggested to do compression in a program that handles it

> better.. such as Imageready or Fireworks, then tell Flash to use the

> imported image data on export (image property settings in the library).


A rather late two cents: I don't know what does a better job compressing,

but I do know my outdated equipment sometimes has trouble trying to hold all

the non-compressed versions and work with the .fla file, so I had been using

previously compressed versions and telling flash to leave them alone. I

haven't seen a major size or quality problem with those. However, recently

I've switched to using pngs which are small enough (compared to tiffs) not

to cause me problems with the fla and letting flash do the compression and

am getting better swf file sizes (not a lot, but some). I don't use

Imageready though, so likely if you're using something that does compression

really well, that might probably works better.


I've also found that trace bitmap almost invariably makes huge files for me

(others obviously have better luck as I read some saying they were even

smaller) and hand-tracing isn't helping that much - optimizing curves very

far loses more than I want to lose of the image and I'm really better off

doing the graphics in photoshop, which I know is the opposite of SOP around

here... I guess my images are too complicated. But flash does do a much

better job of traces than streamline, if your images can handle it :)


Laura


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