Apparat For Scala 2.8 RC2

Published on May 24, 2010 in Flash, personal and projects. 13 Comments Tags: , , .

Apparat is now available using the Scala 2.8-RC2 build. You can find appropriate downloads now on Google Code by searching for the Scala version of your choice. 7z compression on OS X should work now as well.

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  • Jeffrey Gilbert
    May 24, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Is 7z compression installed by default on OS X or do I need to download an app for that?

  • joa
    May 24, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    You will need 7z which you can download from http://www.7-zip.org

  • Fernando França
    May 25, 2010 at 4:55 am

    Thanks Joa, works great on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 ;)

    I tested reducer with p7zip 9.04 on six production SWFs that had been created and optimized carefully and the gains were between 5% and 8%, which is pretty fantastic.

  • eckhard
    May 25, 2010 at 10:01 am

    Thanks Joa,

    can you give a brief explanation of the two options -q and -d ?
    I´m trying to squeeze banners with apparat.

  • joa
    May 25, 2010 at 10:52 am

    “-q” is the quality of the JPEG compression. 1.0 is equal to 100%, 0.5 is equal to 50%. You can ignore “-d” completely for the moment. So if you want to get good compression you could try something like “-q 0.85″.

  • Michael
    May 25, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    I’m getting NoSuchMethodError: scala.collection.immutable.Range.foreach etc…

    I have scala 2.8RC2 installed and have confirmed the version, any ideas?

  • joa
    May 25, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    You downloaded the latest zip? And the scala version on your path is 2.8 RC2?

  • Michael
    May 25, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    Yes, correct.

    I have verified both of these conditions.

    scala -version
    returns 2.8.0.RC2

    I have removed all of my apparat files except for the most recent ones.

  • simppa
    May 26, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    Cool stuff. It removed 304 bytes from my 2355 byte file which is very good thing :)

    To get it work on my snow leopard, this is what I did:
    1. Downloaded the Unix, Mac OS X, Cygwin scala-2.8.0.RC2.tgz (md5) 18.7 MB from http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads and decompressed it into xxx folder.

    2. download the apparat.zip from http://code.google.com/p/apparat/downloads/list?q=label:scala-2.8.0.RC2 and decompressed it to /scala/bin/

    3. copy+pasted my swf to that same scala/bin/ folder (m.swf)

    4. downloaded the 7zX app at http://sixtyfive.xmghosting.com/products/7zx/ and dragged the app to Applications folder.

    5. opened Terminal and went to that scala/bin/ folder and typed ./scala -cp apparat.jar apparat.tools.reducer.Reducer -Dapparat.7z.path=/Applications/7zX.app/Contents/Resources/7za -i m.swf -o mout.swf

    I’m not quite sure if this is the appropriate way, but I must have done something right since my swf is now few bits smaller :)

  • Rohit Sharma
    May 31, 2010 at 9:54 am

    Thanks Joa, but it was working with RC3 not RC2.

    I was getting NoSuchMethodError with 2.8.0.RC2.
    Then, I switched on to RC3 version since it was mentioned on the apparat download page. With that Reducer was working.

  • joa
    May 31, 2010 at 11:20 am

    Well, it is a shame how GoogleCode handles files. I made an update for RC3.

  • Frank Officier
    Jun 7, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    Thanks Joa, this is really perfect…
    It all works now on my mac + Apparat + RC3 + 7za & with the small swf’s.

  • joa
    Jun 8, 2010 at 11:39 pm

    Cool. In fact 7z support should work now out of the box on Linux and OS X if 7za is available on your path. No need to speficy that.

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