So it seems the problem is with the settings in the Web application. pdf2swf is vindicated.
Mark ________________________________ From: Ian Scott <[email protected]> To: Mark Lee <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 7:06:12 PM Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] SWF file size and quality 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 > > > > > > > > > >
