bitmapItem.originalCompressionType

#### Availability

Flash CS4 Professional.

#### Usage

bitmapItem.originalCompressionType

#### Description

Read-only property; a string that specifies whether the specified item was imported as an jpeg file. Possible values for this property are "photo" (for jpeg files) and "lossless" (for uncompressed file types such as GIF and PNG).

#### Example

javascript
Assuming that the first item in the Library is a bitmap item, the following code displays "photo" if the file was imported into the Library as a jpeg file, or "lossless" if is was not:
var libItem = fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[0];

fl.trace("Imported compression type = "+ libItem.originalCompressionType);

bitmapItem.compressionType (../BitmapItem_object/bitmapIte1.md)