Re: [Swftools-common] Using swfcombine to produce AVM2/AS3 compatible movies

[Stefan Richter]

Thank you Matthias.

Just to confirm, I know I cannot convert an AVM1 movie to an AVM2  
movie, but what swfcombine allowed me to do was to modify the AVM1  
movie using the viewer.swf approach so that it was AVM2 compatible  
(and I could for example call gotoAndStop() on a pdf2swf converted SWF  
which before running through swfcombine was not possible).
I'm just wondering what the reason may be that the same thing does not  
seem to work with the SWF that was outputted by another application.  
Could swfcombine not take any AVM1 movie and 'merge' it with a  
viewer.swf like I have done?

Or are you saying that what I am trying fails because the input SWF  
may have too much or too complex ActionScript contained within?

Sorry if this makes little sense, I'm just trying to understand how  
the swftools work exactly in order to be clear what can and cannot be  
done. I'm extremely pleased with the conversions of pdf2swf itself.

Best wishes,

Stefan



On 10 Nov 2008, at 21:38, Matthias Kramm wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:12:40PM +0000, Stefan Richter <address@hidden 
> > wrote:
> > I'm also evaluating some Powerpoint to SWF conversion tools. One of
> > these tools produces AVM1 SWFs. Using this conversion tool I have
> > produced a SWF called air.swf. I would now like to use swfcombine to
> > 'convert' it into a AVM2 SWF, but I am having no joy. Is it even
> > possible?
>
> No. You can't convert AVM1 to AVM2. It's a completely different thing.
>
> > I am thankful for any tips. Maybe only certain SWFs (those produced
> > with pdf2swf) can be 'transformed' to AVM2 in this way?
>
> Well, SWFs produced by pdf2swf usually contain almost no ActionScript.
> The only thing they do in AS is handling links, and stopping frames
> if the "-t" option is given.
>
> Greetings
>
> Matthias