John Paul Ashenfelter wrote: > Is there any straightforward way to parse the Flashpaper 2 swf file to > extract the data in a more usable format? I'm receiving reports (think > MS Access-style reports) in that format and don't have any experience > with it.
That's an interesting problem... the FlashPaper effort has been focused on providing officeworkers an easy way to get office documents onto webpages, and it's not really very functional as a data-transfer format. If someone starts with "MS Access-style reports" and ends up with "FlashPaper" but you actually need the data, then the first thing I'd wonder about would be whether they could do an Export from MS Access in a format you prefer, rather than going "Print" and then choosing "FlashPaper" as the output format. But if the "FlashPaper" part of that problem is a given -- if there's no way to use an actual data-exchange format instead -- then there are indeed utilities to extract text and other info from a compiled SWF file. Most of these are intended as develop-time tools rather than serving-time tools, however, so it might take some experimentation to find a good workflow. When I check the serverside offerings at swftools.com, I see mostly SWF-creation tools rather than SWF-cracking tools for the server: http://www.swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=720 Maybe one of the develop-time SWF extracters/decompilers can be automated for server use...? http://www.swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=759 jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209869 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
