RE: [Swftools-common] missing characters in generated swf

[Goldstein, Seth]

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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Jonas
> Petersson
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 6:03 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] missing characters in generated swf
> 
> Can't say that I know what's wrong, but I might dare a few guesses:
> 
> I can see that the PDFs only contains subsets of the fonts, depending
> on how the text was adjusted the missing "T" might actually not be in
> that subset?
> 
> The other possiblility I can think of is that you've stumbled onto
> something similar to the space issue I just posted a patch for - in my
> case the character representation confuses xpdf so that it doesn't
> know the width of the space character. In my case I kept spicing the
> code with trace until I tracked it down - maybe you should tryt that?
> 
>                      Good luck / Jonas
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 15:01, Jonathan Lee <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone has solution for this?
> > I also encountered similar issue.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 2/23/09, Goldstein, Seth <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Goldstein, Seth <address@hidden>
> >> Subject: [Swftools-common] missing characters in generated swf
> >> To: address@hidden
> >> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 1:09 PM
> >> For some reason, I have a PDF that when run through pdf2swf,
> >> some of the characters are lost.  I am using version
> >> 2009-02-16-1757 of pdf2swf.  My command line is:
> >>
> >> pdf2swf.exe -f missing_characters.pdf -o
> >> missing_characters.swf
> >>
> >> And the output from pdf2swf is:
> >>
> >> NOTICE  processing PDF page 1 (612x792:0:0) (move:0:0)
> >> WARNING Approximating advance value for glyph 0
> >> WARNING Approximating advance value for glyph 0
> >> NOTICE  Writing SWF file missing_characters.swf
> >>
> >> I have attached the pdf I am using.  Thanks!
> >
> >
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> 

I gave your patch a try and unfortunately, I'm still seeing my bug.  Thanks for 
the suggestion though!