Re: [Swftools-common] Hyperlink Coords

[DannyT]

Thanks Matthias,

I was going along a similar line with pdf2swf using the verbose flag (-vvv), is the following part of that output equivilent or less reliable for any reason?


TRACE   drawing link 146.00/97.00 146.00/72.00 167.00/72.00 167.00/97.00 to http://mylink.com/ (" link ")

This obviously gives us the link address as well which we also need (forgot to mention that). I was planning to parse the output to look for those lines per page and use that. Would the dimensions of the page be accurate using this approach?

Many thanks for your help.
Dan

On 24 November 2010 20:54, Matthias Kramm <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:30:16PM +0000, DannyT <address@hidden> wrote:
> Apologies if this is OT but can anyone suggest a means of extracting
> hyperlink coordinates per page of a converted pdf? Alongside the swf output
> we're now also exporting a png but want to generate imagemaps to add back in
> the hyperlinks. Does any of the swftools tools help acheive this?

More or less- here's what you can do:
Use "swfdump -u file.swf" to look for lines like

[007]        61 DEFINEBUTTON defines id 0016
               uses IDs: <id1>,<id2>,<id3>,<id4>

Then run "swfdump -b file.swf" to look up the respective ids <id1>:

[020]        35 DEFINESHAPE3 defines id <id1>
                bbox [0.00, 100.00, 100.00, 200.00]

This will give you the hyperlink coordinates (boxes) for each
for the links.
Lines like

[001]         0 SHOWFRAME 2 (00:00:03,994)

will be seperating the pages.

Matthias

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