Re: [Swftools-common] swf2pdf

[Dmitry Kichenko]

I'd actually be fine if I could keep graphics as graphics when going from SWF 
to PDF. Also, I suspect some of the SWFs actually do have fonts/type in them 
rather than graphics. Would a conversion of those from SWF to PDF be possible?
On 2011-01-14, at 6:23 PM, Ricardo Pedroso wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Dmitry Kichenko
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I do mind, unfortunately (for me). Is it possible to preserve the text
>> and graphics in vector?
> 
> After looking to the source I think text and shapes are render to shapes
> and bitmaps render as bitmaps
> 
> If you want to render text as text you should look at function
> textcallback in lib/readers/swf.c
> and try to modify it to render text as text.
> 
> I think it will not be trivial, but go for it ;)
> 
> Ricardo
> 
>> D
>> 
>> On 2011-01-14, at 16:45, Ricardo Pedroso <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Dmitry Kichenko
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Looks like I have no luck sending emails to the mailing list today.
>>>> Attempt number 3:
>>>> Would like to resurrect a bit of an old question..
>>>> 
>>>> I have a bunch of SWFs created with pdf2swf along with some possibly
>>>> authored with Flash (they contain audio clips) but all are otherwise
>>>> static 1-frame clips. I would like to convert them to PDF. I have some
>>>> knowledge of C, so if you guys aren't too busy, I'd appreciate a few
>>>> pointers on how to write swf2pdf.
>>> 
>>> If you don't mind to have each pdf page as an image you can modify
>>> swfrender.c like:
>>> 
>>> around line 165, change:
>>> 
>>>       gfxdevice_render_init(dev);
>>> 
>>> to
>>>       gfxdevice_pdf_init(dev);
>>> 
>>> and around line 186 remove the break instruction
>>> in the for loop.
>>> 
>>> you will need to have swftools compiled with pdflib, I'm using this:
>>> http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite-7/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ricardo
>>