On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:45 AM, List_Subs <list_s...@mavdns.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:08:37 -0400
> Matt Sergeant <m...@hubdoc.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to debug why an 80KB PDF generates a 500KB SWF file.
> >
> > If I run pdf2swf on a Linux box that's the size I get.
> >
> > If I run it on a Mac I get a SWF file slightly smaller than the PDF.
> >
> > I thought maybe this was a font issue so I copied all my fonts from
> > the Mac to the Linux box (after converting from .dfont files), and
> > still got the same results.
> >
> > Any ideas why I get such a big difference? Shall I put the output
> > from the conversions with verbose on somewhere for people to look at?
>
> Why not.  Maybe link to the 'offending' pdf as well?
>

Sadly I can't as it's a bank statement.

Here's the two files:

http://www.sergeant.org/linux.pdf2swf.out (WARNING: 13MB)
http://www.sergeant.org/mac.pdf2swf.out (only 513KB)

Command line used:

  pdf2swf -v -v -v -z -T 9 -t -s storeallcharacters Td.pdf

Matt.
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