[Swftools-common] Re: problem with swfcombine and many pages

[Ralf Vitasek]

just when i hit send the "-vvv" run finally finished

DEBUG   [master] write tag 1c (2 bytes in body)
DEBUG   [master] write tag 1c (2 bytes in body)
DEBUG   [master] write tag 1c (2 bytes in body)
*** buffer overflow detected ***: swfcombine terminated
Aborted


Am 18.05.2010 um 20:40 schrieb Ralf Vitasek:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having an issue with swfcombine atm, the source PDF has 80-something 
> pages that seem to convert fine page by page.
> my generation script tries without the poly2bitmap switch and then falls back 
> to it, which happens about 50% of all pages.
> 
> When i then try to put all those pages back together into a single swf file 
> with swfcombine it'll start complaining being out of IDs an then just stops 
> with "Killed".
> 
> could it be that the file gets too large/complex ?
> 
> i'm still trying to get some meaningful error.
> running swfcombine  with "-vv" yields no more details and "-vvv" seems to run 
> forever and ever.
> 
> 
> normally i run it like this
> "swfcombine -t container.swf page_* -zo out.swf"
> 
> are there any tips or best practices when dealing with this many pages ?
> 
> 
> i'm using a dev snapshot from january.
> i tried updating to the latest dev snapshot, but cannot get it compiled 
> anymore.
> on OSX it'll stop during make complaining about ttf.c missing and on ubuntu 
> server the configure script stops right away complaining about missing 
> lib/ruby/Makefile.in (sadly i lost the exact error messages since swfcombine 
> suddenly ate 2.7 gigs of ram and everything came to a halt).