Re: [Swftools-common] any way to crop a swf?

[Matthias Kramm]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:53:50PM -0700, michael geary <address@hidden> wrote:
> i have a flash app that imports swf files that were converted  
> automatically from 1-page PDFs. However, i'm now being asked to  
> provide some sort of cropping mechanism. Basically, the scenario is  
> that the user may only want to import a portion of the PDF (the user  
> doesn't really see/know that the PDF is being converted to a swf).
> 
> Is there any *nix-friendly (command line) tool that can take a swf (or  
> it might make sense to do this to the PDF, though for UI reasons  
> that's harder) and crop it based on a supplied rectangle?

If you want to crop it to e.g. x1:y1:x2:y2, you can do
    swfcombine -d -X <x2-x1> -Y <y2-y1> -x <-x1> -y <-y2> file.swf -o file.swf
.

It's also possible to do this in pdf2swf during conversion, using the
syntax
    pdf2swf -c <x1>:<y1>:<x2>:<y2> file.pdf -o file.swf
.

HTH,

Matthias