why is my swf file sooooo big??/

[Sephiroth]

hmm...hey guys.. i have 4 small .swf file...they all have the same..look n feel...all the swf file are like only 5-8k ..very small...except for the animated line graph..its 45k! why... its just a curve line tween...

the line is a symbol..too.... i, however, have the animation expand across 3000 frame..to simulate a slowness in the line movement...why is this causing my file to jump up..its just a curve line... w/o the line..its 6k...

any suggestion..? to do a line..have it tween slow..and keep the file small?

thx

[Marx]

Hi..
1) You could try reducing the line thickness, Window/Panels/Stroke, but the improvements will only be minimal.

2) What about reducing the amount of frames, 3000 seems an extremely high number. If you were to cut this figure in half then the file size would fall in relation.

3) Finally, what about usind a couple of smaller line MC's then reusing them throughout the duration of the graph. By doing it this way you could change the characturistics of each instance of a line MC, scale and so on, knowing that each time Flash will be refering to the same MC. This method would dramatically reduce your file size.

Hope this helps.