Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf support for > 65536 shapes

[Matthias Kramm]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:37:35PM +0000, Ben Broadhurst wrote:
> I know the 65536 shape is a limit of swf's rather than pdf2swf, but is 
> there a way to get pdf2swf to ignore lines below a certain thickness, or 
> to simply ignore all lines after this limit? Or is the only alternative 
> to convert to bitmap?

You can convert to "half a bitmap" using
    pdf2swf -s poly2bitmap file.pdf
.
That will at least preserve the fonts as shapes. Other than that,
you can only try to reduce the shapes *somewhat* by passing the
"-s ignoredraworder" flag.

Greetings

Matthias