Re: [Swftools-common] PDF2SWF PBM Pictures Problem

[Chris]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:56:41 +0800 (CST)
GuoHui <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> After I upgrade my PDF2SWF to 0.9.1, I have found a strange problem:some pdfs 
> contain pbm pictures cannot be converted normally by PDF2SWF, however, 0.8.1 
> works well. In 0.9.1 & Development Snapshot 20100814, the page turned out 
> blank page and the filesize is only 1KB. Attach file is a sample PDF, and the 
> pbm file it contains(Extracted by Xpdf version 3.02).
> (If it cannot be download, see it athttp://www.ltgx.org/files.zip).
>  By the way, for we benifit a lot from swftools, We would like to make a 
> donation or offer mirror download sites for SWFTOOLS.
> VERBOSE OUTPUT UNDER SWFTOOLS 0.8.1:
> C:\swftools>pdf2swf d:\1\sample.pdf -o d:\1\2\a.swf -v
> VERBOSE setting parameter fontdir to "C:\SWFTools\fonts"
> NOTICE  Adding C:\SWFTools\fonts to font directories
> VERBOSE Adding font "C:\SWFTools\fonts\d050000l.pfb".
> ...
> Producer:     FreePic2Pdf - 2.04
> CreationDate: 20100906210046+08'00'
> ModDate:      20100906210046+08'00'
> Pages:        1
> Linearized:   no
> Encrypted:    no
> VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 1
> VERBOSE initializing swf output
> VERBOSE Starting new SWF page of size 2256x3216
> VERBOSE Render (2256,3216) move:0/0
> VERBOSE Using user clip box 0.000000/0.000000/2256.000000/3216.000000
> NOTICE  processing PDF page 1 (2256x3216:0:0) (move:0:0)
> VERBOSE drawImage 3008x4288, colorMap, no maskColors, inline=0
> VERBOSE colorMap pixcomps:1 bits:1 mode:0
> NOTICE  file contains pbm pictures
> VERBOSE Drawing 3008x4288 image (id 3) at size 3008x4288 (2256x3216), 2 
> colors(Normally:2 colors)
> NOTICE  SWF written
>  
> VERBOSE OUTPUT UNDER SWFTOOLS 0.9.1:
> c:\swftools>"D:\Program files\swftools\pdf2swf" d:\1\sample.pdf -o 
> d:\1\2\a.swf
> -v
> VERBOSE Generating info structure for page 1
> VERBOSE initializing swf output
> VERBOSE Starting new SWF page of size 2256x3216
> VERBOSE Render (2256,3216) move:0/0
> VERBOSE Using user clip box 0.000000/0.000000/2256.000000/3216.000000
> NOTICE  processing PDF page 1 (2256x3216:0:0) (move:0:0)
> VERBOSE drawImage 3008x4288, colorMap, no maskColors, inline=0
> VERBOSE colorMap pixcomps:1 bits:1 mode:0
> NOTICE  File contains pbm pictures
> VERBOSE Drawing 3008x4288 image (id 3) at size 3008x4288 (2256x3216), 1 
> colors (// It should be '2 colors').
> VERBOSE endPage (GfxOutputDev)
> NOTICE  Writing SWF file d:\1\2\a.swf
> VERBOSE Performing cleanups
>  
>  
> Thanks a lot
> GuoHui

One for Matthias, who I'm sure will be pleased to know that a
donation is waiting to be given to the project!

I know that SWFTools ( or really I should say, the xpdf library )
has a great deal of trouble with certain types of PBM pictures.
Even the earlier versions suffered in the same way.

While you are waiting, the simplest work round I can think of, is
to open the pdf with something like GIMP, save as a jpeg, then run
jpeg2swf on the result.

HTH (n a little )

kind regards,



Chris.