Re: [Swftools-common] [pdf2swf] 0.9.1; PDF's with a security level don't return a clear error code

[Chris]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:23:13 +0900
James Hong Kong <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We currently working with swftools 0.9.1 and doing some background
> generation through pdf2swf.exe. In some of our cases pdf's have
> security levels (content copying not allowed etc.) but when pdf2swf
> tries to convert them they do not return with an error code, so the
> program that manages the batch job assumes pdf2swf did convert the pdf
> and everything worked fine but unfortunately for those with a security
> issue no FAIL error was returned and therefore no log entry was
> issued.
> 
> Some feedback would be much appreciated.

Maybe your batch file needs amending to catch the error?

Try using -v [verbose] with the pdf2swf command, and parse the output for
'FATAL PDF disallows copying'.

HTH.

Regards,


Chris.