RE: FLASH: Site Check

[Brack, Jeremy]

All you need to do is force flash to publish at a specific width and height.

That will make sure that it never stretches too small to read the text.

This will also make it not stretch to fit resolutions beyond 1024x768, but

you can do some HTML table/cell background color and background graphic

tricks to fill the empty space evenly. 


Flash vector images look great at 100% and larger, but when you stretch them

smaller, they get over anti-ailiased to such a degree that tiny text is no

longer readable.  Perhaps they will create some fix for this in Flash 6.  I

think maybe reducing the amount of anti-ailiasing every time you shrink the

vectors might be the solution, but it is too late to fix this in problem

Flash 5.


Jeremy


-----Original Message-----

From: Flash Gordon [

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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:38 PM

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Subject: FLASH: Site Check



Hi all...


I have a question...

I am working on a site:


http://www.gravitykills.com/testing/enter.html


I develop with my screeen resolution at 1024x768...

When I change my screen res to test the site at 800x600, the Flash looks

crappy!!!

I thought Flash was a vector medium, and doesn't matter what size it

is...yet I get things that look like "jaggies" and text that is hard to

read...

I made the site and frameset so that the Flash portion of the site should be

the same size proportionately, regardless of screen resolution, but I get

this problem....


Do I have to change my screen res to 800x600 and edit the flash file in that

res (reduce the movie size) and make an alternate site for users of that

resolution to get clean lines? (I.e. changing the movie's res from 750x200

to 585x156  - for this project - while in 800x600 res and resizing the movie

clips - then exporting the movie under a new filename...)


I've been noticing this problem for a while - but as I've got some small

elements in this flash file it has become important to find a solution...


Oh, and please be gentle with overall criticism - the menu doesn't work

yet - the site's still in early development...


:-)


-Flash Gordon



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