Re: [Swftools-common] Pdf2SWF and drop shadows

[Matthias Kramm]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:03:40AM -0500, John Bauer wrote:
> What I have done to fix drop shadows is distill pdfs to acrobat 5 first.
> Then all of my problems go away.   I'm not sure how to do this without
> distilling.   Is there any documentation on what versions of
> pdf's/features work and don't work well with pdf2swf?  Also knowing the
> best version of the pdf standard to use would help.

PDF-1.6 still contains some features which are not 100% supported.
PDF-1.5 should work in most cases.

There's also the pdf2swf option "-s breakonwarning", which will make
pdf2swf refuse to process files it isn't sure will turn out to be
converted correctly.

Greetings

Matthias