Thanks for the suggestion Pedro,
I finally tracked the problem down to Drop shadows from Adobe InDesign
causing thick black borders on rendering (in ImageMagick as well as
PDF2SWF).
I now have a workaround that I thought I'd share because I suspect it
may help other people with other problems.
What I did was re-print the pdf from FoxIt PDF Reader (or probably
Acrobat Reader) using the PDFCreator print driver from pdfforge.org.
Which is free and Open Source.
This produces another pdf that doesn't appear to use transparency
groups and also renders text differently. Essentially rewriting an
entirely different PDF that looks like the original but which may not
have the conversion problems the original has.
I couldn't work out how to make it work in a bulk fashion, but I did
manage to set AutoSave and Page Size in PDFCreator and Printing
Preferences default page size in the print driver so that a single
right-click/print on each pdf file produced a converted PDF that worked
with PDF2SWF. This is enough for my needs.
I tried the same technique with the fraction PDF but no success I'm
afraid, but maybe it'll help with the rotated text problem? Haven't
had time to try I'm afraid.
This doesn't fix the crashing problem (for which I can still supply
PDFs), but it works around it and these converted pdfs convert fine
with both the stable and development versions.
Regards,
Pete Siviter
Pedro Pablo Fuentes Schuster wrote:
try converting to png i have the same problem with jpg
On 10/29/07, Pete Siviter <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi there,
I am trying to convert some pdfs as a batch process to swfs and am
having great success with pdf2swf which I am loving.
However, I was having transparency issues on jpegs as discussed
previously on this list - where the backgrounds of images appear black.
I think the same issue that Tim Nguyen was experiencing and someone else
posted a test pdf about the issue.
To try and fix this I downloaded last weeks (and now this weeks)
development build and this seems to work correctly with the test.pdf and
I suspect it'll work with my pdfs also, but the conversion of my pdfs
crashes with the development builds. I've attached the verbose output
of a sample conversion and it seems to crash at about the time the
program tells me that there are transparency groups.
I've tried various different options (setting version 8 etc), nothing
resolves the problem and I have hundreds of different pdfs displaying
this issue!
I can provide some pdfs that causes the crash if that's of use?
Not sure how relevant, but its on Windows XP dual core with 2GB ram.
The pdfs convert ok with the stable build but with the images having a
black border which overlaps the text.
Regards,
Pete
Verbose output follows: -
VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 1
VERBOSE initializing swf output
VERBOSE Starting new SWF page of size 514x727
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NOTICE file contains jpeg pictures
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VERBOSE clearSoftMask
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