I think there might be something you're overlooking. I didn't do this
the most scientific way....but I published a huge file I'm working with
in Flash 8 and the SWF file size came out at 4.71MB. I tried it in CS3
and it came out at 4.68MB. So there does seem to be a difference,
albeit just a tiny one for me. Maybe different compression settings are
handled differently (audio or bitmaps) in 9 and you just happened to
choose the worst possible case!
I will say this though......these files I'm working with are huge. One
of the many huge files in 8 for some reason nobody at my company could
remove frames on this file without Flash 8 hanging and crashing. I
brought it into CS3, and could edit it just fine.
So something seems to be working in CS3!
ben
matt stuehler wrote:
All,
I recently switched from Flash 8 Pro to Flash CS3 Pro.
I just noticed today that my published SWFs and EXEs are considerably
larger when I publish them with CS3 than they were when published from
F8, even though the FLAs are the same.
In other words, I took an FLA that was saved as a CS3 file. When
published, the SWF was 980kb, and the EXE was 3,423kb.
I saved the FLA as a Flash 8 file (since it doesn't us AS3 or any CS3
functions), republished, and the SWF was 879kb and the EXE was only
2,434kb.
That's a pretty big difference (~30% for the EXE), for exactly the
same functionality.
I can live with the Adobe bloat in the CS3 IDE, but I didn't think
that it was going to cost me in terms of the resulting SWF filesize.
Has anyone else noticed this? Am I making a mistake, or missing a
publish option?
Many thanks in advance for your advice and insight.
Cheers,
Matt Stuehler
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