MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual page 320

To publish a GIF file with your Flash file:
Do one of the following to open the Publish Settings dialog box:
1.
Select File > Publish Settings.
In the Property inspector for the document (which is available when no object is selected),
click the Settings button.
Note: To create a publish profile for the publish settings that you specify, see
profiles" on page
On the Formats tab, select the GIF Image type. In the File text box for the GIF image, either
2.
use the default filename or enter a new filename with the .gif extension.
Click the GIF tab to show the file settings.
3.
For Dimensions, enter a width and height in pixels for the exported bitmap image, or select
4.
Match Movie to make the GIF the same size as the Flash SWF file and maintain the aspect ratio
of your original image.
Select a Playback option to determine whether Flash creates a still (Static) image or an animated
5.
GIF (Animation). If you select Animation, select Loop Continuously or enter the number of
repetitions.
Select one of the following options to specify a range of appearance settings for the
6.
exported GIF file:
Optimize Colors
the file size by 1000 to 1500 bytes without affecting image quality, but slightly increases the
memory requirements. This option has no effect on an adaptive palette. (An adaptive palette
analyzes the colors in the image and creates a unique color table for the selected GIF file.)
Interlace
incrementally shows the exported GIF file in a browser as it downloads.
Interlacing lets the user see basic graphic content before the file has completely downloaded
and can download the file faster over a slow network connection. Do not interlace an animated
GIF image.
Smooth
applies anti-aliasing to an exported bitmap to produce a higher-quality bitmap image
and improve text display quality. However, smoothing might cause a halo of gray pixels to
appear around an anti-aliased image placed on a colored background, and it increases the GIF
file size. Export an image without smoothing if a halo appears or if you're placing a GIF
transparency on a multicolored background.
Dither Solids
Dither options in step 8.
Remove Gradients
solid colors using the first color in the gradient. Gradients increase the size of a GIF file and are
often poor quality. If you use this option, select the first color of your gradients carefully to
prevent unexpected results.
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removes any unused colors from a GIF file's color table. This option reduces
applies dithering to solid colors as well as gradients. For more information, see
, which is turned off by default, converts all gradient fills in the SWF file to
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