With 99 separate SWFs generated with pdf2swf outside of the web application the total comes to 9.8MB
/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 > > > > > > > > >
