Reducing SVG File Size

I'm using Wallaby for simple animations, and as long as you remember what Flash features aren't supported (eg, filters), it's working fine. However, the SVG files are rather bloated. I've brought them into Illustrator and re-saved them, which resulted in a huge reduction in file size.
One gotcha to fix: For whatever reason (Wallaby guys?), an underscore is placed before the font name, as in _Book Antiqua. Illustrator of course can't find the font. Open the SVG file that Wallaby generates with a text editor (I used TextWrangler) to remove the underscore, and all will be well.
The resulting animations work fine on Webkit browsers (including Safari iOS). I'm assuming code for Gecko browsers is coming. Unfortunately, nonWebkit browsers grab the first frame of the animation and display that. The work around is to take a screenshot of the SWF's final state, optimize it, import that into the first frame of a new Flash layer, insert a keyframe in the second frame, and delete the screen shot. No animation, but a pretty reasonable image.
Wallaby is a great idea because (IMHO) nothing beats Flash as an environment for creating animations. I'm sure Wallaby will become only better with time, though improving it  obviously nontrivial. Thanks, Wallaby guys, for a great effort.
ak

Hello,
Hmmm... I've run into an unexpected problem. I'd like to scale the unscaled data from DAQmx for some calculations during the data collection, but it isn't scaling the way I would have expected.
My range is +/-10V and the largest unscaled numbers for data filling that range are very roughly about +/-125000. I would have expected them to approach 2^31 (one bit for sign)!!  How can one scale this data?
Also, my saved TDMS file doesn't seem to have the information that "Cont Acq&Graph Voltage - Graph Unscaled Data from File (TDMS).vi" needs to scale it.
Regarding I16, my data is unusual in that it contains a signal of interest that is about 80 dB below the stimuli that are also in the measurement. For that reason I need the full I32 to avoid excessive quantization error in the signal of interest.
Thanks again!
Frenk

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