Re: [Swftools-common] reading shape data from an existing swf file in pyswf

[Matthias Kramm]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:49:48PM +0530, Chetan Taralekar wrote:
> I was wondering if there's any way I could read the primitives(moveto, 
> lineto, splineto, ..) from an existing swf file? I just read a post 
> about how to create shapes in pyswf, and realised that there might be a 
> way to query that same data from an existing swf, but I couldnt seem to 
> find any usage info..

Yes, that's possible- you can use "swfdump -s" to write out 
the polygon paths.

E.g.:

swfdump -s test.swf

| ...
| fill: 01/00 line:00 - moveTo 0.00 0.00
| fill: 01/00 line:00 - lineTo 466.00 0.00
| fill: 01/00 line:00 - lineTo 466.00 266.00
| fill: 01/00 line:00 - lineTo 0.00 266.00 
| fill: 01/00 line:00 - lineTo 0.00 0.00
| ...

So what you have to pass to swfc is

    moveTo 0.00 0.00
    lineTo 466.00 0.00
    lineTo 466.00 266.00
    lineTo 0.00 266.00 
    lineTo 0.00 0.00

.

Greetings

Matthias