I wonder if anyone can help me. We use Freehand 9 to produce graphics and
someone has asked us to create a graphic in gif format that is no more than
15kb in size and 933 x 699dpi. I've spent a lot of time playing around with
the original drawing to alter the properties but, as yet, have not achieved the
desired result. Is there some easy way to achieve this?

> We use Freehand 9 to produce graphics and someone has asked us to create a
> graphic in gif format that is no more than 15kb in size and 933 x 699dpi.

You'd be far better off to use a web-graphics program like Fireworks or
ImageReady for this task. Each has specialized tools for optimizing images.

Judy Arndt

>> We use Freehand 9 to produce graphics and someone has asked us to create a
>> graphic in gif format that is no more than 15kb in size and 933 x 699dpi.
>
> You'd be far better off to use a web-graphics program like Fireworks or
> ImageReady for this task. Each has specialized tools for optimizing images.

And even with those tools image that big is difficult to squeeze into 15kb.

To make it smaller
- Reduce numer of coloros from 256 to 128 or even 64
- Avoid using gradients, because dithering increase file size and wthout dithering they'll become banded.
- Solid color areas make small files.
- Use Adaptive or Selective palette instead of Web palette for better quality.

Jukka