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

[Daniel Fischer]

quoting mawe <mawe at typeofundefined.com>:
> I want to add that the PNG preserve its full alpha capabilities, though it had been grilled by this 
> lossy compression. Means I can put something under it and this will show through. I can even animate 
> the whole thing, continuous transparency still works.

Mawe,

Mark is completely right- SWF knows JPEG and "lossless/zlib" compression. If there is any other format it must be new and unknown to me :)

As repeatedly explained by Ralf in this thread, an alpha mask with JPEG-compressed images can be achieved with the mask="..." attribute. Swfmill doesn't provide any automatic conversion (like the Flash IDE obviously does); that was a design choice to keep the dependencies (and license problems) low.

hth,
-dan