I'm sure all these issues will get rectified over the course of time. However..
Correct me if I'm barking up the wrong tree, but, what you seem to be asking for is commercial support for your use of the product in a commercial environment! Just maybe if SWFTools cost a fraction of the current price that Cold Fusion does - http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/buy/ - which you have stated you are using, or you yourself and/or the company you work for were to make a suitable donation to the project, then just maybe Mattias and Co would be given an enough incentive to work further on the code base. SWFTools is an Open Source project releasd under GPL, not a commercial product. Open Source projects are great to use, and have come a long way from their humble roots, but, unless backed by large resourceful companies ( which to the best of my knowledge, this one isn't ), or have a wide developer base, then they are updated and corrected when time and circumstance allows them to be. Alternatively if you have the time and skill base, you could try getting your hands dirty? So, if you have a cohort of users baying for your blood because things aren't working quite as they should, then just maybe you should have been just a little more circumspect before using SWFTools in the way you have, and/or explained to each and every one of them, that your were trialling the tool, and there would be a few gremlins.. If you knew you required it ( no good being wise after the event ), why did you not go for a commercial product, with commercial support? So, you have a stark choice, either take the rough with the smooth and have a little patience, or alternatively remove SWFTools from your system completely, apologise to your users for the temporary inconvenience caused by you jumping the gun, then go out and spend some money! [ Maybe I'm being a little harsh? Possibly. ;o) Just the way your post came over. Good luck! ] Regards, Chris. On 17 February 2010 19:42, JL <[email protected]> wrote: > "-s poly2bitmap" is your friend or you can try flattening the PDF (save as > PDf 4.0 as well) > > > The pdf2swf seems to be a great tool, but I am running into some challenges > that I need help finding answers. I am using the tool on a coldfusion > server (windows, 32 bit) to convert pdf's that are submitted over the web. > The swf files are then displayed to users within a Flex application. For > the majority of the files it works perfect. However, I am running into the > following problems: > > I am running all of the conversions with a -G (flatten) param. > > 1. Some pdf's do not convert. If I run them manually I get the error > message "This file is too complex to render - SWF only supports 65536 shapes > at once". The message is obvious - what suggestions can I give to users so > this does not happen? > > 2. Some of the converted files do not load into the flex application. When > I try to open them independently in a browser like chrome the plugin will > consume over 50% cpu utilization and I get a message that the plugin is not > responsive. Any ideas on what can cause this or how to troubleshoot. > > 3. Some pdf's will convert to swf files that are MUCH larger than the > original file. The majority of the time the swf is smaller. What will > cause the swf file to convert so large. > > I am not that knowledgeable with the details of swf or pdf files. Ideally I > would love to correct all of these problems, but I would be satisfied with > instructing users how to create pdf's that do not fall into these problems. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > JL >
