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Re: [Swftools-common] Parse hotspots in PDF to create popups in SWF
From: |
Matthias Kramm |
Subject: |
Re: [Swftools-common] Parse hotspots in PDF to create popups in SWF |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:55:45 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:40:27PM +0200, jan bahnsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 1) - user creates an area (e.g. a web-link hotspot) in PDF and tags
> this area with an ID instead of a web address
> 2) - PDFs are converted using pdf2swf
> 3) - a script parses the swf to know the coordinates of the active
> area and also gathers the ID for this area
> 4) - swfc is used to create the logic for the converted SWF to know
> which ID needs to be filled with which content
>
> where i am struggling now is 1) and 3) because i havent figured out
> yet how to find out the exact coordiates of e.g the created hotspot.
Use swfdump -b -u.
"-b" will tell you the bounding box of all shapes (DEFINESHAPE)
in the PDF/SWF.
Weblinks will be visible as DEFINEBUTTON. "-u" tells you which shape
belongs to which button, and hence the button's bounding box.
Greetings
Matthias