RE: FLASH: Getting Clear Pictures

[John Dowdell]

Remember, though, the key concept that SWF is inherently

resolution-independent. It scales. There's not necessarily a one-to-one

correspondence between source pixels and screen pixels.


It's not like HTML, not like Shockwave, not like QuickTime. Macromedia

Flash is designed around streaming vector interactivity. It can use bitmap

assets, but it is not a fixed-resolution bitmap format.


In addition to reading the docs about compression options, be sure to never

resize this photograph, even by a half-pixel worth -- that would force

on-the-fly resampling. Flash is pretty good at this, but if you don't want

the computer to imagine pixels at runtime, it's best to avoid all resizing

during import, authoring, publishing, and viewing.


jd





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