Re: [Swftools-common] executing pdf2swf

[Chris Flowers]

 

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From: Douglas Toole

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Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:18 PM

Subject: [Swftools-common] executing pdf2swf

Hello all,

 I am not tech savvy, so I apologize if this is a silly question:

I have installed swftools on Windows 98 SE under C:\swiftools. I need to convert some pdf's to swf's, but when I try to open "pdf2swf.exe", or any of the .exe's included, A window (black background, white text) opens for about a millisecond, and then is gone. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Doug   

The exe are command line tools and do not have a user interface.

The easiest way is to make a .bat file with Notepad.

 

Open notepad and type this one line:

 

pdf2swf.exe "yourfile.pdf" -o "yourfile.swf"

 

Replace 'yourfile' in the above with the filenames you want.

Instead of saving this as a normal text file, choose "All Files" from

notepad's save dialog and save this file as 'test.bat' to the swftools folder.

 

Put your pdf file in the swftools folder or change the line above to the full path to it.

 

Now go double-click the .bat file. Once it finishes your swf file should be created.

 

Chris