Optimizing SWC Help

Hey,
I am trying to optimize a few library projects I have for deployment. I have read Optimizing RSL SWF Files and have run this command on my decompressed library swc file folder (library.swc plus catalog.xml):
optimizer -keep-as3-metadata="Bindable,Managed,ChangeEvent,NonCommittingChangeEvent,Transient" -input /path/to/swc_folder/library.swf -output /path/to/swc_folder/output.swf
It cut the swc file down in size by more than half, which is great! Still haven't used it yet, that's the next mission.
But my question is, how do I manage the assets/resource-bundles in the decompressed folder, many of which I don't want. The unix command "ls -Rla" shows all the files in the decompressed swc:
./swc_folder:
catalog.xml
library.swf
locale
mx
spark
./swc_folder/locale:
en_US
./swc_folder/locale/en_US:
base.properties
collections.properties
components.properties
controls.properties
core.properties
effects.properties
layout.properties
logging.properties
messaging.properties
rpc.properties
skins.properties
sparkEffects.properties
styles.properties
textLayout.properties
./swc_folder/mx:
controls
./swc_folder/mx/controls:
Button.png
HScrollBar.png
Image.png
List.png
SWFLoader.png
TextInput.png
Tree.png
VScrollBar.png
./swc_folder/spark:
components
./swc_folder/spark/components:
Button.png
DataGroup.png
Group.png
HGroup.png
HScrollBar.png
Label.png
List.png
Panel.png
RichEditableText.png
Scroller.png
SkinnableContainer.png
SkinnableDataContainer.png
TextArea.png
ToggleButton.png
VScrollBar.png
First, I am not using any of those pngs in my project, so how do I get rid of them? And second, for the resource bundles, if I have 5 library projects all using the same bundles (plus a few of their own), how do I extract them out of this swf/swc and make them all reference the same one, so I can cut down on size/duplication? Can't seem to find this kind of detail anywhere.
Thanks so much for your help, really looking forward to some good compression/optimization
Best,
Lance

Hi Lance,
The first step is understanding the difference between SWC and SWF files.
SWC files are for authoring - they contain all possible information needed by tooling and for authoring. This includes debug symbols, icons for the components panel, embedded resources, etc.
SWF files are for deployment - they only contain the minimal information needed at runtime.You can choose more information, like debug symbols and/or line information, which will affect the size of the SWF. The optimzier tool can be used to strip this extra information out of a SWF file.
RSLs are just SWF files that are loaded at runtime. SWZ files are just signed RSLs.
I would not be concerned about the size of SWC files. SWF files are a different story, and should be made as small as possible.
Hope this helps,
Glenn

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My polite suggestion to the original poster: please do your own fucking homework.

Help Needed: Acrobat Pro XI - Reduced Sized PDF vs. Optimized PDF

Hopefully some of you folks can help me, as I cannot get in touch with Adobe customer service. I recently upgraded to Acrobat Pro XI. In my old version of Acrobat Pro, I used to be able to take a PDF file of large size (let's say 10 MB) and shrink it down considerably with relative ease (down to less than 1 MB). The file could then be easily emailed, shared, read, and most importantly wouldn't take up tons of hard drive space. With this new version of Acrobat Pro XI, that same 10 MB file barely reduces down to 7 or 8 MB. I have played with the various settings in both the File -> Save As Other -> Reduced Sized PDF and File -> Save As Other -> Optimized PDF. Regardless of what I try, I cannot achieve anywhere near the same compression results as what I used to be able to achieve with my old version of Pro. I can get the file size reduced, but the reduced file quality is trash.
Has anyone else encountered this problem as well? Do any of you have any suggestions on what to do to fix?? I primarily scan a document as a PDF file with my HP OfficeJet Pro, and then reduce the PDF file size after the scan. I could scan the document with lower DPI to begin with (currently scan 300 dpi typically grayscale), but then I don't have the scanned image quality that I need to reduce the file down so that it can be reprinted later at a good enough quality.

I had previously ran the audit, and 99% + of my bloat is in the image. All of the other possibilities for bloat do not even add up to 1%. For my purposes as a Financial Advisor, I print out blank applications & account forms, fill out the paperwork by hand, and then scan copies of the completed paperwork back into my computer for electronic filing. Some of these completed client documents can be 50 to 75 pages long ... so the PDF scanned at 300 dpi obviously starts out as a substantially sized document that can take up 25, 35, or 45 MB per scan. The crazy thing is that the old version of Acrobat Pro (I believe it was version 7 or 8) would take a 45 MB file and compress it down almost to 1/10th of the oiginal size. As a result, a 45 MB file would end up as a 4.5 MB file. This significant reduction was always accomplished using the one button selection "Reduce PDF" command ... had nothing to do with optimizing the PDF with the old version. Once I ended up with the 4.5 MB file, I could open that file at a later date and print out a page that I needed and you couldn't hardly tell if it was the original or a scanned copy. There was no loss of quality whatsoever!! The Reduce PDF size in Acrobat XI just doesn't work well ... will take that 45 MB file and reduce it down to 42 MB which defeats the whole purpose of the Reduce PDF command in the first place. If I play around with the inputs in the Optimze PDF, I can shrink the file size lower but lose way too much image quality. The only variable that has changed from my old scanning results vs. my new scanning results is the upgrade from Acrobat Pro 7 to Acrobat Pro XI ... everything else that I'm doing is the exact same. Same thing applies when I create a PDF portfolio from multiple PDF documents ... a 150 MB PDF Portfolio will barely reduce in file size.

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