Re: [Swftools-common] SWF files scaled incorrectly

For all these who had the scaling problem, after more experiments, I found the flatten flag fixes my pdf's scaling problems. In my case, swfbbox doesn't seem to help, but the flatten flag does. Keep in mind Matthias mentioned the flatten flag was a highly experimental option, although I've been happy using it with all my openoffice exported pdf's so far. Maybe Matthias can help to elaborate the danger involved in using this feature. I cannot wait to see the option gets full support.

Thanks all for your inputs.

Ted

----- Original Message ----
From: Ted Chen <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:59:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] SWF files scaled incorrectly

Same here. Running swfbbox with -c does not work for me. It only increases the input swf's file size. But loading it via mc.loadMovie() still shows all white areas at the borders.

Similar (but not quite) to Jake's scenario, all my pdfs are exported from openoffice. I ran pdf2swf on these pdfs then swfbbox.

I've uploaded one pdf (300k) at the following url. Hopefully, a fix or workaround can be suggested.

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=b1300e9cb4a3c29ef12a25defafd497e

Thanks, I appreciated any help or suggestion.

Ted.

> If I run that on a swf that was exported from openoffice it fails. Granted swf's coming from openoffice are far from perfect.

> Thanks,
> Jake

----- Original Message ----
From: Matthias Kramm <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:30:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] SWF files scaled incorrectly

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:19:50AM -0700, Ted Chen wrote:
> I'm experiencing the same problem, i.e. when loading the pdf2swf
> generated pdfs, MovieClip.loadMovie() gets a dimension that includes a
> lot of white spaces at borders.  It happens to more than 20% of my
> pdfs.  Which box dimensions are read, when loadMovie() is called?  I
> tried swfbbox, but it does not fix the problem.  I posted the same
> question last month.  Does anyone have any workarounds?  Matthias, do
> you have any ideas or suggestions?

Usually, this can be fixed with
    swfbbox -O -c file.swf -o file.swf
.
The "-c" option is important, as it will correct the bounding boxes in
a way that MovieClip.loadMovie() sees the correct dimensions.

Greetings

Matthias

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From:	Ted Chen
Subject:	Re: [Swftools-common] SWF files scaled incorrectly
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 12:29:01 -0700 (PDT)