: How can I export png layers to flash? (GIMP) I am a GIMP user and I would like to create a flash animated image from PNG in order to preserve the colour quality that otherwise gif fails

@BetL875

Gimp does not natively support export to SWF animations.

However ther is a Python plugin which claims to be able to create a SWF Flash animation of PNG layers. This plugin makes use of the tool png2swf available through the SWFTOOLS collection of flash utilities.

Linux users may get png2swf through their software repositories. For Windows users there are binaries from the project's download page.

It may be more convenient howveer to just run the png2swf tool from a folder containing a numbered set of png frames to stitch them together to a SWF animation. This requires exporting each layer as a numbered PNG from Gimp to the designated animation folder.

From there we can run the tool in a command line with the following syntax:

png2swf -o file.swf -r <rate> *.png


Where the (optional) option -r specifies the resulting framerate per second.

More options can be found on the manpage for png2swf.

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