Re: FLASH: Tiny flash files...

[Bill Numerick]

If you use aftershock for you html side of things i've put it so that the 

movie takes up 0% of the height and width of the screen...made them barely 

visiable if at all.


Hope this helps...


-Bill



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From: Geoffrey Hoffman <ghoffmansirentech [dot] com>

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>Subject: FLASH: Tiny flash files...

>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:46:43 +0000

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>Blue and White G3/ 512mb RAM

>Freehand 8.1

>Flash 3

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>The smallest flash file (swf) I can make in Flash 3 is 18 x 18 pixels.

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>The smallest flash file (swf) I can export from freehand depends on

>freehand's smallest page size, 9 x 9 pixels.

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>I am confused and dissapointed that I cannot make smaller custom page

>sizes / flash documents. I can understand limiting the maximum page

>sizes, but why limit the minimum page size?

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>Perfect example of why I need this: We're making an on-screen editor in

>Director; so we have little flash files for '$' and the numbers 0 - 9.

>The flash files were prepared in FH8.1, on separate pages each 9x22

>pixels, the number '1' on pg 1, '2' on pg 2, etc.. This is great, except

>I need the 'decimal' flash file to be thinner than 9 pixels, 5 in fact.

>But it won't do it in FH, and it's even worse (minimum - 18 pix) in Flash.

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>I understand that I could work-around by make everything 200% size and

>program director to scale everything down 50%, but it would be nicer if

>I didn't have to...

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>Side note: In Freehand, it's really difficult and annoying to work in

>the page view floating palette with pages this small. Even on the

>'farthest zoom in tab' you can't drag and rearange pages with any

>success, you have to increase the size to around 50x50 before you can

>reliably drag a page and move it. Also the way the pages get

>auto-numbered when you move them around in the page-view palette is

>highly counter-productive. I spend hours trying to line up pages in the

>workspace and get them neat and numbered correctly.

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