[Swftools-common] SWF file size and quality

[Ian Scott]

I have a pdf document with 99 pages that is 12.5MB as a pdf file. When I run it 
through the gpdf2swf converter it creates an SWF file that is 8.9MB and looks 
great.

When I plug the same pdf file into the web application that my web agency is 
building for me it creates an overall file size of around 100MB and 
understandably takes forever to load

pdf2swf is used within the application to convert the pdf into 99 separate SWF 
files (one per page) which are then displayed in a Flash based viewer on the 
site

Could anyone tell me why the overall file size for the document when converted 
into one SWF per page is so large (and the image quality worse) compared to 
converting the file as a single SWF with the stand alone gpdf2swf converter.

Is this normal or has my web agency done something very, very wrong.

A bottle of The Macallan to anyone who can tell me what to tell my web agency 
to get the file size and quality at least somewhere near the gpdf2swf 8.9MB

Many thanks in advance,

Ian Scott