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    A few web problems..

    Hi,

    Right the thing is i have a few problems i was wondering if you could help me with.

    1. I want to convert my flash into .gif without loosing quality. What i have tried is exporting as a .bmp and importing this into image ready and then out again as a .gif but then it does not animate. Anyone got a clue on where i am going wrong?

    2. When making a site i want to set the head to a seperate page but refer back to it so that when i resize something on the page the header does not start moving all over the place.

    Cheers,
    RealM

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    Bitmaps aren't animated so you can't export as them. Gifs can only have 256 colours so you're never going to get an exact match if you export from Flash, particulary if you have photos or detailed art in the movie

    I'm not sure what you mean for the second query. You can include code from a file in a variety of different ways depending on what languages you are using to code the site but if it's creatng the HTML for the page then the header will still be affected in the same way as if you had just put the header in the same page. Perhaps you need to clarify

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    I mainly want to have link bars etc as .gif only text really. Is there no way i can do this then without loosing quality? Also i work with HTML and PHP i just read somewhere that you can maybe refer to a page where just the header is held and that makes it stable. I guess i must of mis-read this.

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    Why would you create a text banner in flash and then export to gif ? Just use an image editing app like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to create the gif image in the first place

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    I'm having the same problems getting this

    first one:
    you can choose your own color palette for gif (i.e. optimise the 256 available colors) and you can do this quite easily from flash. as Az sez a .bmp export will only be the first frame, and you'll still loose colors. you can export every frame individually as a series, and then relink them. provided they're sequentially numbered - they can be reimported as a series in most gif animation tools. there will not be any difference in quality. (between flash export to gif and image ready gif)

    regarding the header - if you're working in php and html - just INCLUDE the page header - I presume you want a top menu bar - so either go the SSI router with a server side include
    Code:
    #include file="header.html"
    - or just use php to do the same
    Code:
    <?php include ("head.html"); ?>
    . why not have two divs or spans - one with fixed width so you know it will display the same regardless of res - and the other with no fixed width that will SPAN the rest of the page (hint hint)

    this should be enough to get you started

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    Quote Originally Posted by Az
    Why would you create a text banner in flash and then export to gif ? Just use an image editing app like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to create the gif image in the first place
    I could do that ..But i was just wondering if there was an actually way to do this within flash or if i was just dreaming it.

    Quote Originally Posted by scottyman
    I'm having the same problems getting this

    regarding the header - if you're working in php and html - just INCLUDE the page header - I presume you want a top menu bar - so either go the SSI router with a server side include
    Code:
    #include file="header.html"
    - or just use php to do the same
    Code:
    <?php include ("head.html"); ?>
    . why not have two divs or spans - one with fixed width so you know it will display the same regardless of res - and the other with no fixed width that will SPAN the rest of the page (hint hint)

    this should be enough to get you started

    Cheers for that pal.. Going to try a few of your idea's.. I have already tried include and still seems to construct the same problem. I will try the div/span idea see if that comes up with anything.

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