Re: [Swftools-common] Error while converting the pdf

[Matthias Kramm]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:38:18AM +0200, Ramo At Skuff <address@hidden> wrote:
> NOTICE Adding I:\Flashtools\fonts to font directoriesTitle: 8379-3_xxxx
> Author: xxxx: PDFStar Version 2.0.0 Producer: AFPL Ghostscript 8.14
> CreationDate: 20070525150945Z ModDate: 20080122165621+01'00'Pages: 96
> Linearized: yes Encrypted: no NOTICE processing PDF page 57 (413x584:0:0)
> (move:0:0)NOTICE file contains pbm pictures ERROR ID Table overflow ERROR
> This file is too complex to render- SWF only supports 65536 shapes at once
> 
> So, how can i know before i try to convert the pdf how many shapes i have in
> the pdf file, so that no conversion error will be there?

You can't- the shapes in the PDF are not converted 1:1 to the SWF.

A reasonable approach is to just run pdf2swf, check the return code, and
then rerun it as "pdf2swf -O1" (and then "pdf2swf -O2") in case an
error occured.

Greetings

Matthias