RE: [flexcoders] Re: should i convert pngs to jpegs before embedding them in a flash movie?

[Merrill, Jason]

You'll need to save them as flattened regular png files (or .jpg
files).
 

Jason Merrill 
Bank of America
Learning  Organizational Effectiveness 
  
  
  
  
  

 




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 PNG is a compressed format.
 
 Which flavor of PNG? Some PNGs are, but try an unflattened
Fireworks
 PNG, it's huge and does not compress that I am aware of. Even
so,
 Fireworks PNGs are much larger than regular flat PNG files or
JPGs.
 
 Jason Merrill
 Bank of America 
 Learning  Organizational Effectiveness


You got it Jason. I'm using unflattened Fireworks PNGs when I
design 
the graphics. They are huge. But I'm not sure I need to make
them 
JPEGs because the swf file sizes aren't as big as I'd assume
they were 
if the unflatted fireworks PNG was being loaded in uncompressed.



 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: should i convert pngs to jpegs before embedding them in a flash movie?

[Merrill, Jason]

The SWF compiler when it embeds them should be flattening them. The
Fireworks PNG files are layered, but the Flash Player does not support
layered PNGs. 
 
yes it does.  We have a Flash 8 app that shows layered Fireworks .pngs
just fine.  We even open the graphics back up in Fireworks, make edits,
save back to the server, load in Flash, and repeat.  Never lost any data
doing that (though the files are huge).
 

Jason Merrill 
Bank of America
Learning  Organizational Effectiveness