[Swftools-common] Fw: Re: pdf2swf

[Chris]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:26:42 +0900
Go Furukawa <address@hidden> wrote:

> I check http://swftools.org, but I cannot find any infomation what
> font format is supported.

Agreed. Information is a little sparse.  pdf2swf makes use of xpdf though, so 
whichever
fonts the latter supports, pdf2swf should also.

> Does pdf2swf only support truutype and type 1 font ?

Possibly!  font2swf does ( at the moment ).

> I read the past post below.
> 
> Re: [Swftools-common] OTF fonts
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/swftools-common/2007-12/msg00012.html
> > OTF (OpenType) should be supported, too.

A bit old.  Changes could have been implemented.  Matthias should have the 
definitive
answer there.

> I get HelveticaNeue from Adobe Fonts, so maybe I cannot convert .otf
> to .ttf for license problem.
> http://www.adobe.com/type/

Well, you could try the conversion anyway, placing the ttf versions in the same
directory.  If it then works, you have your answer!  This url may be useful to 
you:

    http://www.freefontconverter.com/
 
> BTW I tried various Japanese OTF, Morisawa, Hiragino,
> I can use Japanese Open Type fonts with parameters -s
> languagedir=/path/to/xpdf/japanese
> I get language support files from Xpdf website.
> http://foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

Yes, any extra fonts required can usually be obtained from the Xpfd download 
area. 

Regards,


Chris.

> 2011/10/20 Chris <address@hidden>:
> > All -F option does is add the specified path to that currently used by 
> > fontconfig,
> > which processes the fonts.
> >
> > I'd check that you have all the font names *correctly* stated, especially 
> > with
> > respect to upper/lower case letters, to make sure that 
> > 'HelveticaNeueLTStd-Md'
> > really does exist as a truetype/type 1 font.  What you have, are Open Type 
> > fonts,
> >
> >   HelveticaNeueLTStd-Md.otf
> >   HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdCn.otf
> >
> > Other than that, if the required font(s) are in the directory, correctly 
> > stated, and
> > required for the conversion, then they should be used.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:27:52 +0900
> > Go Furukawa <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I have a problem about pdf2swf.
> >>
> >> I want to convert a PDF file (not embeded fonts) to a swf file,
> >> but converted swf is bad, font shape is not real, font position is strange.
> >>
> >> I'm using pdf2swf using following parameters
> >> # pdf2swf  -F /path/to/fonts HelveticaNeue.pdf -o HelveticaNeue.swf -v
> >>
> >> pdf2swf -v log
> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/123033/pdf2swf_question/log.txt
> >>
> >> I put many fonts to /path/to/fonts/ directory,
> >> but in my log, only 3 fonts is recognized at line 6,
> >> and found 10 fonts at line 9.
> >>
> >> How can I use all fonts in directory ?
> >> Is anyone have an idea to solve my problem ?
> >>
> >> Source PDF (not embeded fonts):
> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/123033/pdf2swf_question/HelveticaNeue.pdf
> >>
> >> pdf2swf Output:
> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/123033/pdf2swf_question/HelveticaNeue.swf
> >>
> >> Fonts (not attached to this mail)
> >> HelveticaNeueLTStd-Md.otf
> >> HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdCn.otf
> >> I put them to /path/to/fonts directory.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/123033/pdf2swf_question/capture_pdf.png
> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/123033/pdf2swf_question/capture_swf.png
> >>
> >>
> >> from Go Furukawa