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

[Chris Pugh]

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