[Swftools-common] Exporting data from PDF2SWF in a binary format

[Jeremy Rudd]

Hi all,

I've been using PDF2SWF (a fantastic tool, btw) for the last few months 
to read PDF data. Currently I'm parsing the SWF to extract the 
text/shapes from the PDFs.

I was wondering if I could modify the source of PDF2SWF, to export 
directly to a simple binary format instead of exporting to SWF, which 
would be cool for 2 reasons:

- bypass the SWF per-frame shape limitation (65K shapes per frame or 
something)
- bypass parsing SWF - the binary format can be read much easier by my 
apps in .NET

I scanned the lib folder as well as the pdf2swf.c source that would be 
relevant. I couldn't understand where to begin, so I'm writing to ask 
for some pointers. Any suggestions or help - what to change and how, 
would also be appreciated.

Thanks for your time,
Jeremy Rudd