RE: [Swftools-common] %d can produce larger SWF files

[Tony Stallan]

Hi Matthias,

I'm not talking about multiple pages in a single file, I'm talking about 1
page in 1 file.

I run this command to produce a swf for page 1

pdf2swf somefile.pdf -F fonts -f -p 1 -s insertstop -s enablezlib -s
flashversion=8 -s internallinkfunction=_root.internalLink -s zoom=75 -s
ignoredraworder -s jpegquality=50 -s fontquality=50 %3 -o  swfpage_1.swf 

I may have to run this command several times for each page in the pdf

So I tried the following with %d to automatically create 1 swf file for each
page

pdf2swf somefile.pdf -F fonts -f -s insertstop -s enablezlib -s
flashversion=8 -s internallinkfunction=_root.internalLink -s zoom=75 -s
ignoredraworder -s jpegquality=50 -s fontquality=50 -o swfpage_%d.swf

(I may have typed it incorrectly as I am out of the office)

What I noticed was that the pages created with %d were much bigger than the
ones created with separate commands.

Swfpage_1.swf was 100k using the first method.

Swfpage_1.swf was 150k using the second method.

Why would this be ?

Regards

Tony



-----Original Message-----
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Of Matthias Kramm
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] %d can produce larger SWF files

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:28:36AM -0400, Tony Stallan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I have been converting each page of my PDF's individually and then I 
> noticed the %d option.
>  
> Great I thought, however when using %d the resultant SWF files are 
> much larger (50%) then the individually created SWF's.

Very well possible- when multiple pages are stored in a single file, they
can share information like fonts, bitmaps etc.
With only one page per file, that's not happening anymore, so the files are
larger.

Greetings

Matthias