I'm afraid that the Linux binary might not use compression for the
output PDF. I experienced that before with swfc (not sure with pdf2swf
[I can't remember it]). Which Linux distribution are you using? Did you
installed it from a repository or by yourself? Which swftools version
are you using?
I installed from source and made sure that the ./configure output pretty much matched on both OSs (with platform differences obviously). It's Ubuntu (I think 10.4?). swftools is 0.9.2 on both platforms.
Did you see the dots difference I posted most recently? I'm pretty sure it's related to the dots, not compression, as swfdump gives a significantly different output, and a visual inspection shows that the two SWFs are different (with respect to the dots).
Since wine is able to use the Windows version of swftools, you have an
easy way to check whether pdf2swf for Windows gives the same size results.
Sure, but I think the dots is the problem, and so I'd like to know how to get the same results as the Mac produced, otherwise I'm going to have to switch to an ImageMagick/convert version for this app and use images.
Matt.