FLASH: Text making big flash files

[vachon]

Does Flash handle text less elegantly than it does other vectors?


My client asked for a piece to advertise a private financial website--

lots of columns of boring figures.


I made screen captures of 6 pages from the website. Then I 

overlaid them with brightly colored animated explanatory text. It 

looked great, but of course the bitmaps of the website are sharp 

only when the window is at the original size. The client asked if the 

screengrabs can be any sharper.


Since the original website is all text and numbers, I was able to 

easily recreate these 6 pages in Flash. I did this and discarded the 

bitmaps. No good! The .swf size is somewhat smaller (102kb vs. 

168kb) but the animation is now unacceptably jerky and slow, 

particularly when these big blocks of text are moving.


Are there any special tricks when working with lots of text?



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