Re: FLASH: Reducing nodes

[Daniel Brown]

> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:41:11 -0800

>

From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Reducing nodes

> 

> At 10:50 PM 3/20/0, P�terffy �ron wrote:

>> Hi, I've some scanned, then traced graphics. My problem is, that the even

>> with fine-tuning the tracer, it creates a lot of nodes (points, etc.). In

>> Corel I can use Auto-Reduce, and it's OK - but I have to ungroup the object,

>> and reduce the nodes by shapes... and that's a bit time consuming. (Even not

>> as bad as modifying the nodes one-by-one)

>> Can Illustrator / Freehand / StreamLine do the same? Maybe with a few click

>> (on the object)?

> 

> Yes, when you're tracing bitmap art to vectors, then reducing the total

> curve count is very important... you've identified a critical area.

> 

> Many tracing tools optimize for print purposes, and don't care about the

> needs of web delivery. There's still a bit of a split between the print and

> web world.


Indeed. The level of precision necessary in the print world is a bit of

overhead for the web.



> Random notes:

> 

> - --  You can get rough tracing in Adobe's Illustrator, but for finer tracing

> there you'll need to purchase Adobe's Streamline, and then likely a plugin

> for removing extra points that aren't needed for web work. If using this

> route, be sure to use the free FlashWriter plugin from the Macromedia site

> for faster workflow.


StreamLine will allow you to batch-outline several images, adjust

posterization settings in real time, adjust curve tolerance, etc. As for

needing a plug-in, I'll need to send John a copy of Illustrator 8.0. We have

a tool that lets you selectively reduce the number of points in a path so

you have control over where you want to optimize the points.


db



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