Sometime around 5/9/08 (at 02:35 -0700) Tom Byrne said:
when installed into a graphic box in freeway 5.2 Pro, it gets cut
into slices and displays very slowly and in a juxtaposed manner.
Bits of one frame appear mixed with bits of another.
I’d first like to echo Dave’s comment that this isn’t ideal content
for the GIF format. For a cross-fading photo slideshow effect I think
you’d actually be better off using Flash!
Regarding the thing being sliced up, this can only happen if you have
HTML items sitting partly on top of the graphic, or at least on top
of the overall combined graphic area, OR if any overlapping graphic
element has been set not to combine.
What you could then also hit is cache reload ‘errors’, where the
browser loads caches versions of the animated GIF into different
slice parts in the layout, distorting and fragmenting the appearance
horribly. This is NOT what the page is really like, it is just
produced by your browser being lazy about fetching the real graphic
elements when it thinks it has seen them already and doesn’t need to
reload them from scratch.
Your page seems to be behaving itself, which seems to indicate that
it was a cache problem you were seeing.
If you really don’t want Freeway to touch your animated GIF in any
way other than to include it in your page layout, just click the
Passthrough checkbox when you use the Import dialog. This tells
Freeway to ‘pass the image straight through’ without attempting to
optimise or modify it in any way. I generally don’t use this option,
as it blocks everything from cropping to merging with other graphic
elements - but it does have its place.
If you import an animated GIF in the normal way, you can have other
graphics combine with it in the output, just as normal non-animated
graphics can combine in the output.
What happens when an animated GIF is in the mix is rather clever:
every frame is remade, using the animated GIF file’s settings but
combining the additional graphic elements into each frame. Clever,
huh? And very handy if you want to do things such as add title
content, logos (including translucent and cut-out graphics) or other
items to the animated GIF content itself.
k
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