SWF Rendering

Hi,
I have few SWF files for which the loading/rendering time of
SWF is huge.I am converting these SWF from PDF files.Can anyone
tell me what are the factors in SWF that cause slow rendering and
how can i avoid that during PDF to SWF conversion.
Thanks in advance

johnnyblondon;
Make sure the text field is set to "static", and avoid using
one of the
device fonts, or if the text field needs to be dynamic, elect
to "embed" the
character outlines in the swf.
-Tom Unger

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officermcnulty wrote:
> Hi - I currently deal with a customer who has a large
number of dynamically
> generated SWF movies. For various purposes they would
like to be able to
> generate images (for example of the first frame only) of
a SWF on demand, and
> potentially there would be multiple concurrent requests
to do so. Does anyone
> know if there is a component, Dot Net DLL or any other
programmatic mechanism
> for exporting a single SWF frame to JPG or PNG format,
but without displaying
> the flash control or other visual interface, and that
supports multiple
> concurrent calls?
>
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rubnov » On devices with Flash 2.0 preinstalled, SWF
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