On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:00:10AM -0400, Joshua Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > We did a few tests based on the above settings, and we started > receiving badly balanced softmasks/transparency groups errors, we then > tried coversion with -s poly2bitmap, which now allows the full multi > page PDF to convert, but we start seeing issues in outputted SWF > beyond minor artifacting and pixelation. Such as weird looking > background coversions of imagery, drop shadows not converted > correctly, some text areas appear to be covered over by opaque > rectangles.
Sounds like that these are all xpdf issues, particularily with softmasks and transparency groups. I hope that there's a new official xpdf release soon. Derek did a lot of work into fixing issues like this, and his prerelease versions work much better with most of these features. If you can't wait, consider getting an xpdf support contract. > Anyways, I was hoping someone could either confirm or suggest what is > the Ideal PDF to be converted via PDF2SWF. Since all of your issues are with variations of transparency, consider reconverting your PDFs to PDF 1.2 or PDF 1.3. > many thanks and I apologize that my 1st post in a few years being so long. Well, welcome back! :) Matthias
