Re: [Swftools-common] PDF2SWF - Hidden Text issue

[Chris]

Maybe a feature 'wish list' somewhere on the wiki, would better keep track of
these kind of requests?   Things have a tendency to get lost in even the most
moderate 'noise' on mailing lists.

I also recall Matthias mentioning a while back about the possibility of
running something like Trac or Bugzilla,

   http://trac.edgewall.org/

   http://www.bugzilla.org/
 
Thoughts anyone?

Chris.

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 20:08:46 +0000
Andreas Eberharter <address@hidden> wrote:


> Hi,
> 
> I can confirm this behavior and had problems myself. The only way I got rid 
> of the hidden text, was by running it through Acrobat.
> 
> It would be great to have some sort of command line option to discard hidden 
> text. Unfortunately I am not the indicated person to add this feature...
> 
> Greetings,
> Andreas
> 
> On 05.08.2011, at 15:49, JL wrote:
> 
> > Hello,  Wondering if anyone had a chance to take a peak at this and offer 
> > any suggestions?  
> > 
> > Does PDF2SWF have any concept of a PDFs "hidden text"  or text that is 
> > "overprint" and can keep it hidden in the resulting SWF as it is in the PDF 
> > rather than revealing it?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > JL
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:48 PM, JL <address@hidden> wrote:
> > You can pick up the source PDF, resulting SWF and Image of the description 
> > of the issue here
> > 
> > http://www.mediafire.com/?22qib343ezf87
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > JL
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:43 AM, MG Balaji <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi JL,
> > 
> > Can you please provide one sample pdf for the below mentioned issue.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Balaji
> > 
> > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:29:18 -0400
> > From: address@hidden
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [Swftools-common] PDF2SWF - Hidden Text issue
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I posed this question/issue about a year ago or so and there were no 
> > responses.  Figured I would try again and see if anyone else has 
> > experienced a similar issue.
> > 
> > On occasion I come across a PDF that has what Acrobat considers "Hidden 
> > Text"  Usually the only way to view this Hidden text is to perform "Examine 
> > Document" in Acrobat which it then gives you the ability to remove or view 
> > that hidden text.
> > 
> > I have tried conversion with a variety of parameters (flatten, poly2bitmap, 
> > etc) with the current version of PDF2SWF and past versions on Windows and 
> > this "hidden text" always appear in the SWF output from pdf2swf.
> > 
> > Acrobat and other PDF Readers seem to honor this hidden text and not 
> > display it when opened, but PDF2SWF seems to always show it....any 
> > thoughts?  Does pdf2swf understand the concept of what PDF flags as 
> > "hidden"?
> > 
> > If a sample would be helpful, I will see I can locate one that exhibits the 
> > behavior.  While the Examine Document > Remove function in Acrobat works to 
> > get rid of the text altogether before converting to SWF, many of the PDFs 
> > are provided from various Users who would not understand that concept or 
> > have the ability to access Acrobat Pro to perform such a process, so if 
> > PDF2SWF can accommodate this during the conversion process, that would 
> > awesome.  
> > 
> > Looking at some of the past GIT comments, I saw an entry for something 
> > stating "remove invisible characters"
> > 
> > https://github.com/rpedroso/swftools/blob/3575ceae924318b7d9d518d900eb7742a9db6b10/lib/filters/remove_invisible_characters.c
> > 
> > But was not sure if that applies to this "hidden text" element or if this 
> > update applies to the Windows version of PDF2SWF.
> > 
> > Thanks for any direction you can point me in
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
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> > JL
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