I ran your PDF through SWFtools 0.9.0 and the latest Dev Snapshot 2-6-2010 (both on Windows platform)
And it converted fine. No longer seeing that empty white box from your sample. I used the <flatten> <poly2bitmap> and a straight conversion (no options) and all three came out fine. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Matt Pearce < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- Jeff
