Re: [Swftools-common] Help with multiple issues - users starting to get discouraged

[Matthias Kramm]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:07:14PM -0500, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am running all of the conversions with a -G (flatten) param.
> 
> 1.  Some pdf's do not convert.  If I run them manually I get the error 
> message "This file is too complex to render - SWF only supports 65536 
> shapes at once".  The message is obvious - what suggestions can I give to 
> users so this does not happen?

I'd fallback to rendering the file with poly2bitmap in these cases,
as other users have suggested.

> 2.  Some of the converted files do not load into the flex application. 
> When I try to open them independently in a browser like chrome the plugin 
> will consume over 50% cpu utilization and I get a message that the plugin 
> is not responsive.  Any ideas on what can cause this or how to 
> troubleshoot.
> 
> 3.  Some pdf's will convert to swf files that are MUCH larger than the 
> original file.  The majority of the time the swf is smaller.  What will 
> cause the swf file to convert so large.

Try downscaling images. That usually helps:
    pdf2swf -s subpixels=1 file.pdf -o file.swf

Matthias