Re: [Flashcoders] PDF2SWF -- Problems with gradients

2006-08-07 Thread David Rorex

There's FlashPaper, but I'm not sure how well that will integrate with your
current workflow (you didn't say if you have occasional PDFs to convert, or
if it needs to be an automated, fairly often process)

-David R

On 8/7/06, Marcus Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I've been having trouble with the conversion of PDFs to SWFs.

If the PDFs are created in InDesign, gradients do not get converted
properly
using the PDF2SWF utility (http://www.swftools.org). In Quark however, the
conversion works without problems.

I understand that the reason for this, is that InDesign creates 'true'
gradients, whereas Quark effectively fakes them. It looks as though
PDF2SWF
currently cannot handle the 'true' gradients effectively. My company is
moving to 100% use of InDesign and since we have a need to regenerate the
pages as SWFs, this is going to be a big headache.

One work-around that I know will work, is to rasterize the gradients. I'd
like to avoid this proceedure if I can, though, because its a lot of extra
work.

Does anyone have any ideas about this? Is there another tool other than
PDF2SWF that can handle such conversions, without altering the layout? Or
are there techniques in InDesign that I could use?

Any ideas would be appreciated,

Thanks,

M.

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[Flashcoders] PDF2SWF -- Problems with gradients

2006-08-07 Thread Marcus Cheetham

I've been having trouble with the conversion of PDFs to SWFs.

If the PDFs are created in InDesign, gradients do not get converted properly 
using the PDF2SWF utility (http://www.swftools.org). In Quark however, the 
conversion works without problems.


I understand that the reason for this, is that InDesign creates 'true' 
gradients, whereas Quark effectively fakes them. It looks as though PDF2SWF 
currently cannot handle the 'true' gradients effectively. My company is 
moving to 100% use of InDesign and since we have a need to regenerate the 
pages as SWFs, this is going to be a big headache.


One work-around that I know will work, is to rasterize the gradients. I'd 
like to avoid this proceedure if I can, though, because its a lot of extra 
work.


Does anyone have any ideas about this? Is there another tool other than 
PDF2SWF that can handle such conversions, without altering the layout? Or 
are there techniques in InDesign that I could use?


Any ideas would be appreciated,

Thanks,

M.

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