in this case you got to check what image format is being used in the PDF documents and make sure it's a format that does not need to be converted. there are lots of tools in the linux world to find out more about your pdfs (pdfinfo, pdf enhancer, pdftk ...).
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Thomas Packert <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael, > > Yes, that is for sure. > > The PDF are coming from customer scanners. We have a wrapper around the > Twain driver to get the images into our application. The users scan the > documents into our Flex/Flash application with USB scanners on their > workstation or they upload PDFs scanned on office MFP printer/scanners. > > Tom > > ________________________________ > From: "Michael Geary" <[email protected]> > To: "Thomas Packert" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 2:03:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] SWF tools PDF to SWF of Image files in PDF > forms > > 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 > --------------- > SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend > an existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser > at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common> > > > --------------- > SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend > an existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser > at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common> > --------------- SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend an existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common>
