Thanks JL and Ben for your help. I am new to Swftools, but looks a good group of folks here.
I am having my conversion issues with "pdf2swf - part of swftools 0.8.1" on Mac 10.6.2. I then tried installing "pdf2swf - part of swftools 0.9.0" using MacPorts, and now I am getting a pesky segmentation fault. I understand from other threads it is due to a libjpeg, but I haven't been able to update that yet. I will keep working on it. These files are being uploaded to a video conference provider for presentation, and the vid conf provider said they will get back to me as to what version of Swftools they are using. Since I don't have much control over what conversion process they use, I'll probably start converting locally on my box and uploading as SWF so that I have control over the conversion. In summary, I am converting to PDF using PDF-CUPS print driver Version 2.4.6.1, Generic postscript color printer driver rev3a. When i do the conversion with swftools 0.8.1, it is dropping the background color on any tables cells that span multiple cells and randomly whiting out other table rows. I also see random box and line artifacts on other tables. If any one can confirm this sample PDF below convert properly on 0.9.0, then I will upgrade. Some of the options, such as --flatten, appear to be introduced in ver 0.9.0. If it's a PDF problem, then I need to figure out how to make my CUPS-PDF export Acrobat 4.0 compliant, or whatever the safest spec is. Here is my sample file: http://www.interlingospanish.com/materials/TableProblem.pdf Here is a jpg of the output from PDF2SWF on vid conf provider (not sure what version): http://www.interlingospanish.com/materials/TableProblem.jpg Many thanks, Matt On Mar 12, 2010, at 7:05 PM, JL wrote: > We tend to use PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4.0) if we run into problematic PDFs. > > 1.3 Did not support live transparencies. so the more complex elements are > automatically flattened. > > If you can provide your sample PDFs, we can probably provide some more > insight. > > Also, what arguments are you using with pdf2swf. --flatten <-G> usually does > a good job with problematic PDFs. <-s -poly2bitmap> it probably the most > failsafe option to include (not with flatten) but images will suffer unless > you boost the resolution (which takes much longer to process in some cases) > > Good Luck. > > JL > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Matt Pearce > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a video conference service that converts PDF files to SWF for > presentation. They are using PDF2SWF on the back end for the conversion. > > Depending on how I create the PDF file on Mac 10.6.2, the SWF version is > converted improperly in various ways: > > 1) Export directly from application: merged cells in tables lose their > background color > 2) Print using CUPS-PDF driver: random cells in tables are whited over and > strange artifacts and lines appear > 3) Convert using Adobe Distiller PDF/X-3:2002 seems to be ok, but I have to > get the files into PS format to use distiller, and this is a manual process. > > Can anyone tell me what PDF spec PDF2SWF will convert properly? Any ideas on > what might be going on with these various PDF conversions? > > Thanks for your help! > Matt > -- Matt Pearce InterLingo Spanish Manizales, Philadelphia US: 215-268-7212 / CO: 036-8900957, 3126974586 www.interlingospanish.com
