Re: [Swftools-common] Couple of Questions and request for plain swf files

[Matthias Kramm]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:04:15PM +0800, Greg & Michelle <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Can I ask a question or two :) please.
> 
> 1.  I note there is a GUI for the pdf2swf called qpdf2swf but it looks 
> like it has not been updated since 1996 and I could not get it to work 
> on a Vista PC, so is there anything else available via a GUI interface?

Of course. Install the .exe version of a recent snapshot, and you'll
have a GUI-version of pdf2swf on the desktop and in the start menu.

It's called pdf2swf_gui, and it's based on wx windows and fairly recent.

> 2.  If for 1 there is no gui is there a command to get it to process a 
> batch of pdf files in a directory please

Hm, you can't do that right now with either the GUI or the command-line
executable (and least not without some batch scripting), but it's very
easy with the gfx module.
Download xpython.exe (http://www.xpython.org/), which already contains gfx.
Then, put xpython.exe and the following script into a directory of your
choice:

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#!/usr/bin/python
import gfx
import os

directory = "c:\\path\\to\\pdfs\\"

for file in os.listdir(directory):
    if file.endswith("pdf"):
        file = os.path.join(directory, file)
        doc = gfx.open("pdf", file)
        swf = gfx.SWF()
        for pagenr in range(1,doc.pages+1):
            page = doc.getPage(pagenr)
            swf.startpage(page.width, page.height)
            page.render(swf)
            swf.endpage()
        swf.save(os.path.splitext(filename)[0]+".swf")
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Run this with
    xpython.exe convert.py

> 3.  I have tried to create my own viewer in Flash but my Flash skills 
> are well - hopeless :).  Does anyone have a plain, no buttons just 
> simple swf file I can use please.

If you don't want buttons, you might try keyboard_viewer.swf.

Greetings

Matthias