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

[Goldstein, Seth]

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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Matthias
> Kramm
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 8:23 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] missing characters in generated swf
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:09:52PM -0600, Goldstein, Seth
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> Thanks for the file- I don't think the advance value warning is
> directly related to the problem (you don't actually need the advance
> for only displaying characters), however it might provide a
> pointer as to what goes wrong.
> The problem occurs in xpdf too, so I'll investigate on the PDF level
> and probably forward to upstream.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 

FYI - I just ran the attached PDF through pdftotext (version
xpdf-3.02pl2-win32) and the text output did include the missing
characters.  What version of xpdf were you using when you tested?  What
version of xpdf does pdf2swf currently use?