Re: [Swftools-common] Internal error: badly balanced so ftmasks/transparency groups

[Ahmed Khan]

Jakob Hohlfeld <address@hidden> writes:

> 
> Hi to all,
> 
> I am using swftools-0.9.2 on an Ubuntu 12-04 machine. I want to convert a PDF
to SWF. The PDF document is rich
> in graphics, transparancies and general design. I  don't know much about how
the PDF was created, but
> running pdf2swf gives me this error:
> 
> > $ pdf2swf InputFile.pdf -o OutputFile.swf
> > FATAL: Internal error: badly balanced softmasks/transparency groups
> 
> I searched the web and found a workaround: render graphics as bitmaps
> 
> $ pdf2swf -s poly2bitmap InputFile.pdf -o OutputFile.swf
> 
> Though this runs smoothly, the result is an SWF document that is missing some
graphics at all.
> Distinguishing from the contents of the original document, there might be an
alpha mask involved in the
> breaking of the transformation, as it was tried in the first place.
> 
> Could anyone give a hint about what to do about the softmasks/transparency
error - at least beyond
> completely opting-out of vector graphics?
> 
> Thanks for your advice
> Jakob
> 
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Hi Jakob,

Try the following command. This may help:
pdf2swf --shapes -s poly2bitmap InputFile.pdf -o OutputFile.swf

regards

Ahmed Khan
Principal Software Engineer,
Strategic Systems International,
Lahore, Pakistan.