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:
Here is a jpg of the output from PDF2SWF on vid conf provider (not sure what version):
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
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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
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