>On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:18:07 -0400 (EDT) >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. Why are they uploading pdf files? Why not simply upload the images? Surely those would be way easier to manipulate prior to feeding through pdf2swf? Maybe this is simply a case of putting the cart before the horse, or running before walking. Too many steps in one go, is a rather long and ineffective shortcut that cause more problems. ;o) [ my two EuroCents worth ] Regards, Chris. -- <[email protected]> > ----- Original Message ----- > > 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>
