I have a course that's ~65MB after it's been published with relatively high quality settings. About 55MB of that total size is consumed by the images in the "mobile" folder. No matter what quality settings I adjust, though (even dropping everything down as low as possible), the size of the images in the "mobile" folder appear unchanged.
Is there a way to lower the file size of the images in the "mobile" folder without resorting to image editing software?
If you don't want to use external image editing software, the best approach would be to go multi-step process to "optimize" your images to the size they are seen on the stage.
For each image, right-click, save as (jpg for anything not requiring transparency). The import that now optimized image to your stage, and delete the original. Now all the images in your published folder will be at the optimum size for the display needed, without all the baggage data that would come along for a much larger size you don't need.
Thanks for the answer, Scott, but I'm already outputting my images with the stage size in mind. In other words, I'm not shrinking the images down to fit them onto the stage.
5 Replies
If you don't want to use external image editing software, the best approach would be to go multi-step process to "optimize" your images to the size they are seen on the stage.
For each image, right-click, save as (jpg for anything not requiring transparency). The import that now optimized image to your stage, and delete the original. Now all the images in your published folder will be at the optimum size for the display needed, without all the baggage data that would come along for a much larger size you don't need.
Hope that helps.
This post was removed by the author
Thanks for the answer, Scott, but I'm already outputting my images with the stage size in mind. In other words, I'm not shrinking the images down to fit them onto the stage.
Hi Erich,
Thanks for sharing what you are experiencing in your published output folders.
I'm curious if the images you are using are PNG files?
Image compression in the publish quality output only applies to JPG files as you can read about in this documentation.
Thanks for the reply, Leslie. I didn't know that.
BTW, the link you provided is broken.
No problem, Erich. Thanks for the heads up - those spaces get me sometimes. It's fixed now :)
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.