What is the nature of your PDFs? In my experience, Flash really doesn't handle 
*large* bitmaps well. One thing we've had success with is vectorizing bitmap 
images. 

michael


On Sep 1, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Thomas Packert wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> 
> We are using SWFTOOLs to convert PDF images, scanned from various multi 
> function printers into FlexPaper with PDF2SWF.
> 
> The issue we are having is that the resulting SWF file will be 10 to 15 times 
> the size of the original PDF image.  
> 
> If the PDF is a non-image PDF then there is not the mutiplication of the size 
> of the file. I have seen 3MB Image PDF files turn into 45MB SWF files by 
> passing them through PDF2SWF
> 
> We have played with some of the command line switches with the PDF2SWF, but 
> that results in a resolution that is too low to make the image usable.
> 
> Our UI is written in flex/flash, and the users scroll through the Flex Paper 
> version of the document.  Some of these documents are 100,150, 200 pages.  So 
> the ballooning of the size of the document consumes a lot of bandwidth and 
> memory.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before and perhaps has a work around/patch to prevent 
> the SWF file expansion to 10x the original?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom
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