Getting the data out of flash isn't that bad, what you need is a library to write to. In the windows case with GDI it is simple, you get the shapes, bitmap fills etc, and just writeline, writecurve, bitmapbrush etc. Probably the reason you don't see a (free) screenshot tool for linux etc is that those are things baked right in. I'm sure you can do it with QT or something, but that gets to be a fair bit of research and work for pretty limited use (considering these things are available on windows already that is). More interesting would probably be to use Java's SWT. You could take the output of any of the swf tools out there (swfmill for example) and then just parse it into SWT (which has the drawline etc stuff already). Actually I might give that a look, I have swf going to gdi already in our own tools, it would be almost the same. Just I'm still recovering from a year doing Eclipse programming, I'll have to see if I can bear looking at that stuff again. Always like SWT though, might be fun : ). I'll let you know, or if you want to try it yourself, feel free to ping me for conversation : ). Cheers, Robin
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ashutosh Chauhan Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [osflash] SWF to image convertor Dear Phil, Thanks for pointing that out. I didnt know that. I will try Mono and will report if i get the success. But an open source version of such swf to image convertor would be quite useful. I am still finding it hard to believe that such a tool doesnt exist. It would be quite useful because there are many people out there who still dont have a flash plugin installed on their browsers and to serve them it make sense to show them an image instead of swf and for that one need to have this convertor. I believe its quite a routine task, so there must be already a tool for it. On the side note : Can some give some pointers on how to write such a convertor, so that I can write this of my own and then contribute to osflash. Cheers, Ashutosh. Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:14:03 -0400 From: "Phil Peron" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [osflash] SWF to image convertor To: "Open Source Flash Mailing List" <[email protected]> Message-ID: < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 7/25/07, Ashutosh Chauhan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My problem is I am on linux thus cant use C##, .NET libs. > I don't want to get too off-topic here but have you looked into Mono? http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
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