Re: [Swftools-common] Rendering glitches with flatten and ignoredraworder

[Tim Whittington]

----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Matthias Kramm" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, 26 August, 2012 11:50:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] Rendering glitches with flatten and
> ignoredraworder

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 11:57:04AM +1200, Tim Whittington
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I've observed a couple of glitches when rendering a PDF with the -i
> > (ignoredraworder) option, one of which occurs when it is combined
> > with
> > -G (flatten).

> Well, the whole point of -i is that it allows pdf2swf to do
> destructive
> changes to the layout in order to achieve a minor speed increase.
> It's a pretty old option, and you probably shouldn't be using it
> anymore, unless you have some very good reason. (If so, I'd like to
> hear
> what it is)

In my case it was playing with options to reduce the number of shapes in the 
generated SWF - the conversion in this case blows out the 65k limit on the PDF 
I referenced (at page 245 of 208) unless -i is used. 
If it's not a recommended option, I'll look at generating one SWF per input 
page for larger PDFs instead. 

cheers 
tim