Re: [Swftools-common] Problem converting a pdf to swf

[James White]

Greetings,
     I have a similar problem (I think) and I'm hoping someone can give me some insight into fixing it.  I have a number of PDF document that I need to convert (on demand) to swf and view.  I'm using FlexPaper (http://flexpaper.devaldi.com/) to view swf files.  An important feature is to be able to search the document.  A number of these PDF documents are scanned documents with an OCR'ed text in them.  If I use "pdf2swf input.pdf -o output.swf " all is well.  I can view the embedded OCR results using "swfstrings" and the resulting swf file is searchable in the FlexPaper viewer.   However there are a number of PDF files that don't render properly with out using the "-O1" or "-s poly2bitmap" switch.  However the swf files created this way no longer have the embedded OCR "swfstrings" returns nothing and the resulting swf file can't be searched in FlexPaper.  Is there a way to keep the OCR'ed strings when using the "-O1" switch or any workaround that will allow me to extract the strings from a swf file created without the "-O1" switch and insert them into a swf document created with the '-O1" switch?

Jim White
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On 6/24/2010 3:44 AM, Jim Jacobson wrote:

Hi John,

for me it looks like a problem with masked objects.

Can You give the commands over the shell, to get an error-msg? 

 

try this to ensure that there is no problem with the images.

/usr/bin/pdf2swf input.pdf -o output.swf -s bitmap

 

Jim

 

----- Original Message -----

From: John Georgiou

To: 'Jim Jacobson'

Cc: address@hidden

Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:19 AM

Subject: RE: [Swftools-common] Problem converting a pdf to swf

Hi Jim,

unfortunatelly I get the same problem: http://www.optimedia.gr/jgeorg/page127.jpg

Thank you for your suggestion.

 

Any other idea??

John

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From: Jim Jacobson [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:54 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] Problem converting a pdf to swf

Hi John, try this..

 

/usr/bin/pdf2swf input.pdf -o output.swf -O1

 

Please tell me what kind of problems you habe with the resulting swf.

 

Jim

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: John Georgiou

To: address@hidden

Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:11 AM

Subject: [Swftools-common] Problem converting a pdf to swf

 

Hi all,

 

I have the attached PDF page127.pdf from a customer of mine.

I tryied all the possible command line switches to convert it to swf, but the result is problematic 

 

I'll appreciate any available help

Thank you 

 

John