Re: [Swftools-common] Why is PDF original file small and converted SWF BIG???

[Matthias Kramm]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:52:01PM -0700, Clyde Sparks wrote:
> I'm using Windows PDF2SWF version 0.6.3.
> command= PDF2SWF -z -j35 0.pdf
> 
> input PDF ~140kbytes = http://www.clydesparks.com/test/0.pdf
> output SWF ~1Mbyte = http://www.clydesparks.com/test/0.swf
> 
> Any ideas why the output is so big??
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way to make to output swf smaller??

It's the image- it's compressed differently in the PDF file
than it is in the SWF file.
Try playing around with the "-j" option.
E.g. by using
    pdf2swf -j 20 0.pdf
the swf file is only 3k on my machine.
Oh, and also use a recent version (the .rar snapshot; extract it
to where you previously installed 0.6.3)- there have been some
optimizations in the image handling lately.

Greetings

Matthias