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

[Joel Poloney]

I tested this theory and I was correct, the 8bit mask doesn't work for
semi-transparencies (unless I'm doing it incorrectly). I followed your
example ralf and it worked great for images with 0% or 100% transparency,
but not for variable transparencies (ie. tinted glass). Is this a bug with
swfmill?

Regarding png size, I've been using imagemagick to resize my images and
apparently have been doing it wrong all along. I have been able to get some
file size improvements out of it, but I still feel I can do something here
on swfmill's end to compress it even further.

Thoughts?

-- Joel

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Joel Poloney <jpoloney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ralf,
>
> Sounds good, I'm going to try this soon. Do you know how well this works if
> parts of image are 50% transparent instead of 100%? I'm going to try it, but
> I'm afraid that the colors might not look right.
>
> -- Joel
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Ralf Fuest <ralf-fuest at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure this is the same thing the flash IDE does but this is a way
>> to get better compression for transparent pngs using swfmill:
>>
>> I have used ImageMagick to do the image conversions:
>>
>> 1. Convert the image to an jpg (only color information):
>> convert source.png image.jpg
>>
>> 2. Convert the alpha channel to a grayscale png:
>> convert source.png -channel matte -negate -separate -depth 8 -type
>> Grayscale mask.png
>>
>> 3. Import in swfmill:
>> <clip id="foo" import="image.jpg" mask="mask.png"/>
>>
>> Of course you can also save these files directly from your image editing
>> application.
>>
>> I've uploaded a example at: http://pep-mp.de/swfmill/Mask.zip
>>
>> The archive contains two xml files. 1.xml does use the original image
>> and 2.xml the jpg image and png mask.
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 24.04.2008, 14:32 -0700 schrieb Joel Poloney:
>> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Mark Winterhalder <mark13 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >         I think the compression setting in Flash only affects JPGs
>> >         (where
>> >         Swfmill just takes what you pass to it, so you'd have to use
>> >         another
>> >         program to compress your JPGs further if desired).
>> >
>> > If you're talking about the Flash IDE, then this is incorrect. Even
>> > though it says "jpeg compression", it will affect all images,
>> > regardless. For example, I had it compressing my transparent PNG
>> > images quite a bit. I have no idea what type of compression they're
>> > using, but I think that's what this thread (and my thread) are all
>> > about. How can we achieve such compression from the command line.
>> >
>> > -- Joel
>> >
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