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

[Andrew Sinning]

Thanks!



On Oct 12, 2012, at 6:10 PM, "Matthias Kramm" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
> 
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