# Flex users, about PNG's

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 17, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-users-about-pngs/294635 "2009-08-17T20:03:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![rumblesushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@rumblesushi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rumblesushi)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-users-about-pngs/294635/1 "2009-08-17T20:03:22Z")

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I use PNG’s a lot, in pretty much everything I do.

One of the things I love about Flash is it’s ability to compress a PNG, whilst retaining the transparency. Also it seems to do a great job on compression full stop, whilst introducing not too many ugly JPG artifacts.

For example using a compression setting of 65 in Flash, I can get a PNG down to 1/10th of it’s original size, and still look fine for fast moving graphics.

Now using the [Embed] tag in Flex just Embeds the uncompressed PNG, and reading through the livedocs etc, there seems to be no method of compressing an Embedded PNG.

For offline work it’s not a problem, but for online work one obviously wants as small a file size as possible.

I’m starting to think Flash CS4 as the compiler + Flash develop as the IDE might be my best solution.

So for Flex users, do you have a workaround for compressing PNG’s?