If I may reply to my own post.....how come the swf file it comes from is 90kB, whilst the gif is mahoosive.. Clicky for Pigswuff
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Wed 31 Aug 2005, 21:45,
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Recommened course of actionis to export from flash as a movie, and import that into imageready, and save result as a gif.
-actually that was the answer to the wrong question. It is massive because flash is smart enough to save one copy of the background and one copy of the pig and move the position of the pig over the background, whereas a gif has to save every frame. But I'll shut up now because for some reason posting to the board has become incredibly slow all of a sudden.
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Wed 31 Aug 2005, 21:49,
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-actually that was the answer to the wrong question. It is massive because flash is smart enough to save one copy of the background and one copy of the pig and move the position of the pig over the background, whereas a gif has to save every frame. But I'll shut up now because for some reason posting to the board has become incredibly slow all of a sudden.
flash uses vectors, whereas gifs are bitmapsvector formats are usually smaller than bitmaps
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Wed 31 Aug 2005, 21:50,
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