Re: [Swftools-common] Detecting number of objects

[Matthias Kramm]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 02:43:29PM +0100, Eric Friethoff | Modern Media 
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Currently the process of such a file will be terminated (Too many
> objects).
> 
> I would like the conversion to be an automatic procedure that knows how
> to deal with certain circumstances.

I see.
You can get a rough estimate on whether the file contains more
than 64k objects by doing a test run:
    pdf2swf -s zoom=1 file.pdf

The test run will be slightly faster than the "real" pdf2swf 
because of the "-s zoom=1", however this will not detect
files which may require more than 64k shapes with 
100% certainty, as at lower resolutions e.g. bitmaps might be
re-used more often. It will work for the majority of cases,
though.

Greetings

Matthias