Re: [Swftools-common] swf2pdf

[Dmitry Kichenko]

Thanks for the reply! The "text as shapes" route might be good enough in my 
case. Where should I look to get started?

Thank you!
On 2011-01-20, at 6:24 AM, Ricardo Pedroso wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Dmitry Kichenko
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd actually be fine if I could keep graphics as graphics when going from 
>> SWF to PDF. Also, I suspect some of the SWFs actually do have fonts/type in 
>> them rather than graphics. Would a conversion of those from SWF to PDF be 
>> possible?
> 
> Sorry for late reply.
> As I said before it is possible, but if you want that text be
> converted as text it will involve some work.
> At the moment doing the changes I said it will render text as shapes,
> shapes as shapes and bitmaps
> as bitmaps.
> 
> Note that not all swfs will work, the one generated by pdf2swf will
> for sure work as I state above.
> 
> Ricardo
> 
>> On 2011-01-14, at 6:23 PM, Ricardo Pedroso wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Dmitry Kichenko
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I do mind, unfortunately (for me). Is it possible to preserve the text
>>>> and graphics in vector?
>>> 
>>> After looking to the source I think text and shapes are render to shapes
>>> and bitmaps render as bitmaps
>>> 
>>> If you want to render text as text you should look at function
>>> textcallback in lib/readers/swf.c
>>> and try to modify it to render text as text.
>>> 
>>> I think it will not be trivial, but go for it ;)
>>> 
>>> Ricardo
>>> 
>>>> D
>>>> 
>>>> On 2011-01-14, at 16:45, Ricardo Pedroso <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Dmitry Kichenko
>>>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> Looks like I have no luck sending emails to the mailing list today.
>>>>>> Attempt number 3:
>>>>>> Would like to resurrect a bit of an old question..
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have a bunch of SWFs created with pdf2swf along with some possibly
>>>>>> authored with Flash (they contain audio clips) but all are otherwise
>>>>>> static 1-frame clips. I would like to convert them to PDF. I have some
>>>>>> knowledge of C, so if you guys aren't too busy, I'd appreciate a few
>>>>>> pointers on how to write swf2pdf.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you don't mind to have each pdf page as an image you can modify
>>>>> swfrender.c like:
>>>>> 
>>>>> around line 165, change:
>>>>> 
>>>>>       gfxdevice_render_init(dev);
>>>>> 
>>>>> to
>>>>>       gfxdevice_pdf_init(dev);
>>>>> 
>>>>> and around line 186 remove the break instruction
>>>>> in the for loop.
>>>>> 
>>>>> you will need to have swftools compiled with pdflib, I'm using this:
>>>>> http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite-7/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ricardo
>>>> 
>> 
>>