Re: .gif export sizes

[rupus crunchbucket]

Send a few of your samples to me and let me see....


Its hard to tell if I don't know what the original files are like...


michael


John Dowdell wrote:


> At 3:05 PM 5/20/98, Colin Moock wrote, of post-compression of Flash GIFs:

> >Tests that I did with fireworks and optimization showed that when you

> >optimize a gif exported from Flash 2, you get only a few (like 2-5)

> >bytes difference. (I wasn't changing colour depths because I wanted a

> >fair comparison).

>

> Odd. After reading your post yesterday I made some confirming tests, and

> I'm getting results that vary greatly... for some animations I saw what you

> report (Fireworks will only shrink Flash GIFs a small bit), but in other

> animations I saw a great difference in filesize after recompressing through

> Fireworks.

>

> I'm not sure what the difference is yet. I tried both recompressing Flash

> GIFs, as well as creating animations in parallel in Flash and Fireworks and

> comparing their native GIFs. I'm not sure what the critical differences are

> yet.

>

> Anyway, just wanted to get back to you that I can confirm what you report

> in some cases, and can confirm what I report in some cases. <g>  Not all

> Flash GIFs will be massively shrunk by Fireworks, and I'll keep trying to

> find the rule of thumb. Anyone else have leads on this...?

>

> tx,

> jd

>

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