Quality=”best” is better

[EDIT: This post applies to Flash 8 only. Flash 9 has a different way of handling stage quality]

This is something that is not very well documented, so I thought I’d point it out here.

By default Flash will publish your movie at quality=”high”. Setting the quality setting to “best” is a good idea if you are doing any scaling or rotating of images. Leaving the quality as high can lead to artifacting and jaggies as seen in the tests below.

Set your movie’s quality settings in Publish Settings -> HTML -> Quality.