Re: [Swftools-common] z-order is breaking for some text

[Matthias Kramm]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 02:36:13PM -0500, Andrew Sinning <address@hidden> wrote:
> We're experiencing a problem with some PDFs that use more than one layer of 
> text to produce an "outline" effect.
> 
> The problem goes away if we output the swf as a Flash 7 file, but for other 
> reasons we require the swf be output as Flash 9.
> 
> I have posted an example of the generated swfs at these urls.  The first one 
> is output using "-T7" and it looks just fine,  the second using "-T8" 
> illustrates the problem.  The broken text is at the top where it says "Final 
> Minutes".  This is just one example of the problem.  We can reproduce it 
> using many other source pdfs.

Weird, seems Flash 8 is trying to optimize your font, but only
if FlashType is enabled.

You can use this workaround to generate your files:

    pdf2swf -T7 file.pdf -o file.swf
    swfcombine -d -F8 file.swf -o file.swf

This will process the file as version 7, and then upgrade to version 8
afterwards.

Matthias