Not sure how to trap and rerun without getting an error from the first run.

 

I took the PDF and ran it through optimizer down to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4.0)
which flattens transparencies and ran it through with -G (flatten) and
straight (no options) it the SWF came out fine by my eye.

 

Also took the PDF saved out to Postscript and ran through distillers High
Quality setting (saves it higher version than 1.3) and it comes out fine as
well. (saving to PS flattens transparencies as well)

 

Looks like transparencies are a little complex for pdf2swf for this
PDF.although strange no error came about.

 

Good luck.

 

From: [email protected]
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Behalf Of Matthew Richer
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Swftools-common] PDF Issues but no warnings or errors

 

Hello everyone,

 

PDF:  http://www.salmizar.com/Calendar.pdf

 

Attempt 1:   (http://www.salmizar.com/Calendar.swf)

I have a PDF that when I convert with no special command line parameters
(i.e. -O1, -O2, -flatten, -s poly2bitmap etc.) it converts without any
warnings or errors but a logo is missing on the left hand side and the
vertical bars (grid lines) are missing and the background image is gone.
(I'm thinking blending issue).

 

Attempt 2:

I use -flatten with no luck (actually worse), again no warnings or errors
are printed.

 

Attempt 3:  (http://www.salmizar.com/Calendar_O1.swf)

I use -O1 and the logo appears and I get the vertical lines but I'm now
missing the horizontal lines, again no warnings or errors are printed.

 

Attempt 4:

I use -O2 and I have the same results as -O1, also no warnings or errors.

 

 

 

Now my question is, I'd like to at the very least trap the first attempt
failing and at least get to do an -O1.  However, I get no warnings or errors
from the command line so I have no way of knowing if it failed the first
attempt.  Can anyone offer some insight as to whether this is a bug in
SWFTools or if the PDF is perhaps malformed, and in either case if it is
possible to emit a warning or error for this type of document in the future?

 

Thanks!

 

Matt

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