Re: [Rails] Making small animated GIFs or SWFs in Rails

GIF is already a heavily-compressed (RLE) format. You can optimize the compression by flattening the color palette, using fewer colors and no gradient fades. But how large (pixels) are the resulting GIF images? If you're just animating between static frames, there's nothing magical about SW

[Rails] Making small animated GIFs or SWFs in Rails

Hi - I'm trying to programatically create animated images. It's relatively easy with RMagick, but the animated GIFs are huge. Is there a way to convert animated GIFs to SWF in Rails (and shrink them in the process), or is there any way to create SWFs given a bunch of frames? Thanks, Kevin --