I'm using ming via svg2swf. It takes an SVG element, calls into ming to create the Flash equivalents, and then saves the SWF. My SVG images are vectorized raster images, so they are not very clean, and almost all lines are captured as curves. Most of the time this works well. Svg2swf sets the sub threshold to 100; so a lot of my images, this produces SWF files that are a problem for Flash to display (in some cases locking up or crashing the viewer). I used swfdump (from Adobe), and saw that I had single lines with - in some cases - 800,00 arc segments. In playing around with different values for this parameter, I thought 20 seemed to work better. The files produced were smaller, with fewer of the arc segments per line. Now what I am finding is that not only is this value not working the same for all images, it seems that ming is looping an unreasonable amount (probably in the SWFShape_approxCubic function). Some of these image conversions run for days on a 32CPU Solaris box. The longer the process takes, the larger the files that are produced, and the more arc segments per line. What is confusing for me is that for some images, this happens with the 100 cubic value, and for others, the 20. Also, these are all black & white line drawings. I'd like to get a better understanding of what is going on here, and try to come up with a way of 'fixing' this. Some way of being able to look at the SVG (with a program or some-such) and determine the cubic to use before conversion. I understand that it may not be this easy, or even possible. But I'd like to hear any advice anyone has. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Ming-users mailing list Ming-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ming-users
