Re: Re[3]: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf - multiple pages, one frame?

[Chris Flowers]

> Something interesting I came across is that when displaying the
> resulting swf in a browser, you can only display it so big.. after a
> point, it stops rendering. e.g. if you give the object a height of
> 10,000 and try to scroll up and down, the bottom few pages will not
> show up. The point at which it stops drawing always seems to be at a
> page/movieclip boundary too... i.e. it never cuts off halfway through
> rendering a particular movieclip/page. If you make the object a little
> smaller again, everything is fine.
>
> Of course this is an issue with the player/IE and not SWFTools.. so I
> hope it's not too OT.  It's definitely worth knowing if you're
> planning on making very tall swfs with the intention of scrolling up
> and down them.
>
> Matt

Hey Matt,
This is a known issue with the player, like you said. Usually you can "fix"
this by making sprites of the pages then putting all those sprites inside
one tall 'master' sprite.
I've never done this with swftools but by hand with Flash MX.

Also, extracting all pages and rebuilding usually leads to a larger file
size than the original.
Matthias has put some code in to help this but it still leads to larger
files.
I've noticed the more bitmaps the worse the difference. Just a "heads up"
there to be aware of.

Chris