Separating the document into separate pages doesn't make that much difference Mark.
The extracted PDF pages add up to 16MB in total, and taking a random sample of 20 pages and converting them page by page the average file size of the SWF files so far is less than half that of the PDF pages, so I'd be surprised if the total for all pages is more than about 10MB. A lot less then 100MB. And the pages I have converted look much better than those on the site. Strange. Thanks anyway, /Ian On May 10, 2010, at 11:14 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > What's the result when you generate the 99 separate SWFs with pdf2swf outside > of the Web application (in command line?)? > > > From: Ian Scott <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 4:56:21 PM > Subject: [Swftools-common] SWF file size and quality > > I have a pdf document with 99 pages that is 12.5MB as a pdf file. When I run > it through the gpdf2swf converter it creates an SWF file that is 8.9MB and > looks great. > > When I plug the same pdf file into the web application that my web agency is > building for me it creates an overall file size of around 100MB and > understandably takes forever to load > > pdf2swf is used within the application to convert the pdf into 99 separate > SWF files (one per page) which are then displayed in a Flash based viewer on > the site > > Could anyone tell me why the overall file size for the document when > converted into one SWF per page is so large (and the image quality worse) > compared to converting the file as a single SWF with the stand alone gpdf2swf > converter. > > Is this normal or has my web agency done something very, very wrong. > > A bottle of The Macallan to anyone who can tell me what to tell my web agency > to get the file size and quality at least somewhere near the gpdf2swf 8.9MB > > Many thanks in advance, > > Ian Scott > > > > > > > > >
