Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf generates a super large swf

Some correction to the problem I reported below. I'm still seeing the swfcombine (null) fatal message. However, the swf is made with a reasonable size. Only when -G is added, the size gets incredibly large.

The swfcombine fatal msg only appears in 0.8.1. I also tried the same input with 0.8.0. There's no such msg in that case. Is this a serious error, or I can safely ignore it?

Sorry for not correctly stating the problem. Any input is appreciated.

Ted

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From: Ted Chen <address@hidden>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:17:58 PM
Subject: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf generates a super large swf

I have a pdf about 3mb. After pdf2swf, the generated swf is correct but is about 70mb. I noticed there's the following message at the end of the output if I do verbose. The command I ran was with " -v -z -t -T 7"

swfcombine -z -X 720 -Y 540 "(null)" viewport=".../BradleyChemHeritage07.swf" -o ".../BradleyChemHeritage07.swf"
FATAL Failed to open (null)
system() returned 256

If I add -G flag to the command, it seems it went into an infinite loop and didn't finish in more than 10 mins. Lots "x_order_2: colinear!" printed.

I've uploaded the pdf and output messages to

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=0d98111c98170d75c3f0596505d69f61

Ted

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From:	Ted Chen
Subject:	Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf generates a super large swf
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 17:17:53 -0700 (PDT)