Re: FLASH: Text making big flash files

[asaf3]

who do i post my question to please???

vachonechonyc [dot] com

 wrote:


> 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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