Why do exported swf from illustrator double flash file size?

Hi,

in my design I have used a particular font which is not accepted byFlash (i.e it doesn’t display in the external swf). To get round this I have created outlines of this font in Illustrator and exported individual words as swf files as I want to animate them. I have imported them into the library, created a simple animation sequence with them and somehow the entire flash file has doubled in size. How can this be so when the swfs exported from illustrator are only 4k in size and there are only about 15 of them?

Is there another way of getting round the problem that flash won’t see the font I want to use (which is an Emigre font and therefore well drawn)?

Thanks
Bev