Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf crashes on certain pages

[Saravanan Ganesan]

Thank you Chris for your suggestions. I tried running pdf2swf splitting in multiple page ranges and it worked fine for all the pdfs that crashed pdf2swf earlier. So, I am assuming the problem could be due to low on system/memory resources when converting the entire pdf.

 

I then used swfcombine to concatenate the seperate swfs into one file. The only disadvantage I see in generating multiple swfs by page ranges and then concatenating them is that the final swf file size is signifacantly bigger than what it could have been if pdf2swf generated as a single swf. Is this because the fonts and symbols are duplicated in each of the swfs?

 

Thanks,
Saravanan

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden> wrote:

Could easily be that the pdf is too complex, and/or pdf2swf itself is
running low on system resources and memory.

Try using one of the various levels of verbose, i.e. -v[v][v][v] in your
command..  It should give you a rough idea of what pdf2swf was actually
doing when it bailed out, or got stuck thinking.

You could also try running pdf2swf with increased privileges, with no other
( or minimal ) programs running, compatibility mode, or even  in Safe Mode,
It may help.  No guarantees though, there. ;o)

To get round the issue with the problem page(s), try converting them separately
from the rest of the document by judicious use of the page range option,

   -p, --pages range

i.e. split the document into sections.

pdf2swf quite often behaves much better, under Linux.

HTH.

Regards,



Chris.

On 28 April 2010 07:01, Saravanan Ganesan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently started to use pdf2swf for a custom viewer and it worked
> brilliantly with most pdfs I have converted.
>
> Currently I have couple of pdfs that I am unable to convert because the tool
> simply crashes while processing a certain page in each of these pdfs without
> any error message. I tried on Windows XP and Vista and the Command window
> simply crashes on both OS after the tool gets struck on those pages. I also
> tried with -O1 but it did not help.
>
> This occurs on a English text pdf and also with another one that has
> Japanese characters.
>
> Has anyone had the same issue and found a solution? Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Saravanan