Re: scaling, resizing, optimizing.

[John Croteau]

Howdy Evil,

> 1) Is there any way to scale the whole document, so that the embedded

>    JPEGs become smaller in resolution/filesize.

No, Bitmap type graphics should be sized and cropped to exact size

before bringing into Flash. The advantage of Vector Graphics is their

inherent scalability.


> 2) how do you grab several layers with several keypoints along 

>    an animation, and scale it all globally without putting it into

>    a separate symbol?  I think I read a trick somewhere that allows

>    you to grab *everything* with the onion skinning feature, across

>    several keyframes, but of course i can't find it now...


Edit Multiple Frames (Has 3 Red Boxes)

Then Onion All in Modify Onion Markers (to it's right)

Then Select All.

You are then able to resize all objects in visible and unlocked layers.


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