Compression question / problem

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Wed Jan 12 14:58:47 EST 2005


That did it! Thanks.

Any opinions on the (speed/time) issue of transmitting fifty 10k files 
versus one 500k file? Is the answer the same whether the connection is 
broadband or 56k dial up?

Richard


On Jan 12, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> Solved the issue with compressing/decompressing the jpeg files. It was
>> a need to specify all files as binfiles during both the compression 
>> and
>> decompression phases. (Your script helped identify this). But haven't
>> been able to put the fifty files into one stack (as custom 
>> properties),
>> compress and then decompress that stack. The number of bytes stays
>> exactly the same, but the decompressed stack is not recognized by Rev.
>> I suspect this has to do with the file format of a Rev stack...
>> somethings getting corrupted or left out. Is there a way to fix that?
>
> If you're doing this on a Mac system, you probably just need to set the
> (global) fileType property to "revoRSTK" before you write the file.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Development & Design
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