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Posted by Steve Sundberg on 09/26/93 11:16
On Tue, 17 May 2005 12:40:53 -0500, kchayka <usenet@c-net.us> wrote:
>Steve Sundberg wrote:
>>
>> And why use Flash for a simple slide show?
>> As an alternative, a properly optimized GIF animation
>> would get the same job done for fewer bytes.
>
>I doubt it. Gif is not an appropriate format for photos. An animated gif
>would probably be many times larger than a properly compressed Flash
>movie, at least for photographic content.
>
>Now, if they were line drawings instead, it would be another matter.
Yes, you're correct -- although I will sometimes convert JPGs to GIF
in order to achieve the dithered effect. The solution to the large SWF
file size has to involve using properly optimized JPG or PNG images.
Given the few images used in this particular Flash file, there
shouldn't be any need for the SWF to be larger than 50k-75k.
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