[swfmill] compiling png's to swf with diferent quality settings

[Mark Winterhalder]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Baluta Cristian
<cristi.baluta at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello list. i'm new to swfmill and i want to use it with haXe.
> but i have a question wich does not have importance where i'll use. can i
> import many png's to diferent frames into swf, and then set jpg quality of
> this swf? as you know in flash IDE you can set jpg quality, and all png's
> are saved at that quality. jpg's are exported the same you import them.

When you import a PNG, Swfmill will include it as a lossless bitmap
(AFAIK the compression is about like PNG), not as a (lossy) JPG. When
you import a JPG, it won't be modified (again, AFAIK), and retain its
original quality.
So, if you want to have your JPGs with a certain quality, you will
have to down-convert them with a third-party tool before generating
the SWF, to the compression setting you like. I guess what the Flash
IDE does is to do that step for you.

Mark