Re: [Swftools-common] File is too complex

[Matthias Kramm]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:50:13PM +0000, gabriel troisgros <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> when trying to convert a pdf2swf, i have the following error:
>  
> ERROR   ID Table overflowERROR   This file is too complex to render- SWF only 
> supports 65536 shapes at once
>  
> can it be solved ? and how ?

    pdf2swf -s poly2bitmap file.pdf -o file.swf
or
    pdf2swf -s bitmap file.pdf -o file.swf

> another thing: this error crashed my server, which is a production
> server...

what do you mean, "crashed your server"?
Bluescreen+Reboot?

> is there a way to detect BEFORE convert if the file is ok or
> not, to avoid this kind of problems ?

Afraid not- it's always possible that pdf2swf will surrender
in the middle of a conversion.

Greetings

Matthias