[swfmill] Does swfmill have any options for image compression?

[mawe]

Mark Winterhalder schrieb:

> Yes, the Flash IDE is what I meant.
> 
> I'd be curious about an experiment somebody with access to Flash could
> do: A simple SWF with just a single PNG, once with lowest compression,
> then highest compression, and how those compare to each other and a
> Swfmill equivalent.
> I mean, we can see with Zlib how lossless compression can differ
> depending on how many cycles you throw at it, but if SWF's lossless
> compression varies in size, I wonder why it's not at highest per
> default.
> 
> Mark

Tested it at work, with a 24 bit PNG with semi-transparent areas, saved for web out of Photoshop:

- Original PNG: 858 KB
- SWF output size, with JPEG quality for publishing set to 0 (zero): 177 KB
- SWF output size, JPEG quality set to 100 (hundred): 627 KB

The low quality version showed heavy artifacts and was, well ... low quality.
I couldn't notice any differences in quality for the high quality version, despite the 200+ KB 
difference in filesize.

Maybe this helps.

Matthias