Skin editor = ENEMY of my JPEG

[martyhr]

Oh my god!
I added thee small JPEG images to my panorama. Each about 40-60kB. I want to avoid increasing size of my final SWF.

I found that Skin editor converted my small JPEG images to PNG which are 12 times bigger without any warning!!!

Could you imagine if I add 10 or 20 pictures for the exhibits? The final panorama is useless as a single SWF. It is also bad when I save it to the HTML page with "Externalize skin data and images".

Any clue how to handle with original 50kB JPEG images?

See: http://virtualpanorama.cz/mms7/

I want to have 40kB and 65kB pictures instead of 680kB or 920kB PNG files !!

Marty

[zap]

See here
http://gardengnomesoftware.com/forum/vi ... =13&t=1648

Cheers

[martyhr]

Hi zap,
I read the post and did not find the solution.

[zap]

Hi

Just link your hotspots to external images defined as "hotspot text" like described in the post. There is a skin example for testing purposes.

In general don't insert the images just link them. Speeds up pano opening/downloading.

Cheers

[stalwart]

I raised this issue a month or so back:
http://gardengnomesoftware.com/forum/vi ... =13&t=2123
and Hopki, et al, provided a very useable work-around - calling external images.

Stu

[martyhr]

I tried to edit HTML pages with external PNG pictures.I just replaced the PNG big pictures from Skin editor by my own JPG originals.
I did not find any other easier way how to call external pictures.
But what about if I want to pact all together in to one SWF file?



Marty