RE: [Swftools-common] SWF files scaled incorrectly

[John Bauer]

I have the same problem,   What happens is that there is extra “junk” outside the artboard.  PDF’s recognize the artboard. If you use the SWF exporter in Illustrator it will include the “junk”.   When I load the swf’s with my flash application the size is recognized as the size with the extra junk.  So each page could potentially have a different size.

 

Is there a way pdf2swf could recognize the artboard size then set the origin and size of the stage correctly?

 

John

 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Paul Farnell
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:13 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] SWF files scaled incorrectly

 

On 3 May 2007, at 14:51, Jake Hilton wrote:

I think swfbbox would work for that but I've never used it.

Jake

 

Thanks Jake. I just tried swfbbox with the following options...

 

swfbbox -v -B -e -O -o mag1.swf mag1.swf

 

But unfortunately to no avail - the SWFs are still far too wide.

 

Paul.

 

 

On 5/3/07, Paul Farnell <address@hidden > wrote:

On 3 May 2007, at 14:33, Rick Schmitty wrote:

> (sorry if this is a repost.. I think I emailed Paul directly last
> time)
>
> I've had this happen too, but only on some PDFs which leads me to
> believe there is something in the original PDF that is causing it.
>
> If you download the IRS tax forms they all seem to work fine for me
> without all the extra spacing
>
> What in the original PDF is causing this I havent found out...yet
>
> Are your PDFs created by InDesign or Quark?  I'm leaning towards
> something funky that the print designer did right now

Thanks for the quick response Rick. Yep, they're made in InDesign. I
have a suspicion that it's to do with items which extend off the page
in InDesign - perhaps their containers are still included in the PDF
somehow.

The only idea I had was to somehow force crop the PDFs to the paper
size, but I have no idea how to do that.

Paul.

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