Re: [Swftools-common] Progressive download

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 20:47, Chris Pugh <address@hidden> wrote:

2009/1/13 Cristian Rusu <address@hidden>:

> Probably it works on multiple calls, but isn't way much handy to just give
> it a parameter that will output one swf per page, so I don't have to deal
> with how many pages are there, counts and index of each page in order to get
> the swf files set?

I suppose your choice depends on end result you wnat.

>
> Anyway, the display is not htat easy after I get the files as I have to
> handle the pages totally different than it's now with one swf and more
> frames...

Who said programming was easy? ;-) Shame that ..

pdf2swf -p 1-4 zz.pdf --viewer zviewer.swf -o zz%.swf

doesn't work like,

pdf2swf -p 1-4 zz.pdf --defaultviewer -o zzz.swf

> Anyone have some code/component to give me some heads op on doing that for
> my viewer?

There are some interesting options to be found with

pdf2swf -s help

including some hooks into the created swfs. Maybe worth a look if
you haven't already
done so?

Regards,

Chris.

> Sincerely
> Cristian Rusu
> Web Programmer & Electronic publisher
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 13:19, Chris Pugh <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> In which case the other method is the one to choose. However, you did
>> state that you wanted to load and display each
>> page separately, while downloading the rest of a large file, in which
>> case calling pff2swf recursively would work.just fine.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>> 2009/1/13 Cristian Rusu <address@hidden>:
>> > No, I hope for a single run to output all pages not programatically run
>> > the
>> > converter for each page, figuring out ahead what is the other method is
>> > the way forwardthe page count.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sincerely
>> > Cristian Rusu
>> > Web Programmer & Electronic publisher
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 22:26, Chris Pugh <address@hidden>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> pdf2swf is something I rarely use at the moment, however, wouldn't
>> >> the,
>> >>
>> >> −p, −−pages range { i.e 3-5,10-12 }
>> >>
>> >> option, do exactly that which you describe?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Chris.
>> >>
>> >> 2009/1/12 Cristian Rusu <address@hidden>:
>> >> > Matthias,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am not sure what you mean by thumbnail...
>> >> >
>> >> > I am interested to have the document swf separate from the viewer, I
>> >> > am
>> >> > building the viewer like a player, and document swf is loaded
>> >> > afterwords.
>> >> >
>> >> > I am looking for solution to not put a user wait on a 40MB document
>> >> > swf
>> >> > to
>> >> > load.
>> >> >
>> >> > Maybe pdf2swf can build multiple pages one by one and create a
>> >> > wrapper
>> >> > swf
>> >> > to load them and I load the wrapper?
>> >> >
>> >> > I guess too much wrapping :)
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Alternatively, can pdf2swf output the document one swf per page?
>> >> >
>> >> > Sincerely
>> >> > Cristian Rusu
>> >> > Web Programmer & Electronic publisher
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 19:05, Matthias Kramm <address@hidden>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:38:03PM +0200, Cristian Rusu
>> >> >> <address@hidden>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > Does anybody know if a large pdf2swf become available for page
>> >> >> > turning
>> >> >> > before everything is downloaded? I think not...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Depends on the PDF. At least all the fonts need to be downloaded
>> >> >> before
>> >> >> anything is displayed.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > If not, any better solution that let me start browsing the
>> >> >> > document
>> >> >> > as
>> >> >> > pdf
>> >> >> > let you, while downloading?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Would a thumbnail (low resolution bitmap of a page) help?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Greetings
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Matthias
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

From:	Cristian Rusu
Subject:	Re: [Swftools-common] Progressive download
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:52:24 +0200