Thanks so much for the response. We did the following and this appears to resolve our issues and we are back on track.
In Acrobat Pro > save as > Adobe PDF Files (optimized) click "settings" button. in PDF optimizer change the pull down for "Make Compatible" to Acrobat 4. save. (previously files where acrobat 7 format) we then changed the command line to convert PDFs to SWFs to the following: pdf2swf -t -z -f -T 9 -F ../../Fonts/ sci_sun_te_1.3.pdf -o sci_sun_te_1.3/sci_sun_te_1.3_%.swf we removed -s poly2bitmap. thanks everyone and have a great weekend. -Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Kramm" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 7:33:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] if you could specify PDF optimization and settings for the cleanest PDF2SWF conversions .. 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 -- Joshua Reed Sutherland Solutions Architect Roundbox Global: An IdhaSoft Company -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 981 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. Suite 100 Atlanta, GA 30318 tel: 404.567.5000 ex. 2074 | cell: 617.515.0214 | fax: 678.623.0305 email: [email protected] | www.rbxglobal.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
