Scaling images in Macromedia Director MX04

Jan-20-06, 2:16 am by Hanford
File under: Shockwave, Adobe, Director, Macromedia

I'm looking for a method to scale images down in Director that provides better quality than CopyPixels or sprite scaling.

Here's an original:
scale-original

Here it is scaled to 225 width in Photoshop:

scale-photoshop

Here it is scaled to 225 width in Director MX04:

scale-director

All three images were saved using the same JPG saver at the same quality level.

Notice the edges on the S in the Director version? They're anti-aliased, but they're also a bit jagged and rough. The Photoshop scaled version shows nothing like that.

Update

I've found a solution! Here's what it produces:

Bilinear Resampling image:

You can read about the details of Bilinear Resampling in Director in my next blog entry to get all the juicy details.

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