Re: [Swftools-common] on swfc and pdf2swf

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Thanks, Matthias, for the reply.

Matthias Kramm wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:45:32PM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > On the poppler compilation: is it enabled if the proper libraries are 
> > found or must it be enabled as a compilation option?
>
> It doesn't work yet. It's just in there to show good will.
>
> > Poppler seems to support embedded multimedia objects in PDF documents. 
> > Would it be possible to improve this in pdf2swf?
>
> Maybe- you mean Javascript, U3D and stuff?

I would like to have it to have mainly movies in PDF presentations that 
have them. Otherwise it seems to be extremely complicated to have movies 
 in the final PDF.

> I'm not entirely sure about the whole Poppler<->xpdf forking thing.
> poppler seems to be very active, and I haven't heard from Derek
> (the xpdf author) for quite some time. On the other hand, the
> poppler guys still refer to xpdf as "upstream" and incorporate fixes.
> Last time I looked, they were also seriously lacking support for
> advanced things like transparency groups. Anyway, I don't want to
> switch to poppler just so that suddenly a new xpdf is released 
> which can do more things than the poppler version I just switched to.

Switching is not necessary. Wouldn't it be possible to use poppler in 
the features that xpdf doesn't support?

Thanks,


Pablo