Re: [Swftools-common] Flash Player Crash when using transparent shadows.

[Norman Khine]

Hi,
Yes, I can also confirm this, I tried to open it through the zViewer and 
it crashed FireFox with this error:
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Add-ons: 
{59c81df5-4b7a-477b-912d-4e0fdf64e5f2}:0.9.84,{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}:1.1.1,address@hidden:1.3.3,{4c197c8f-a50f-4b49-a2d2-ed922c95612f}:0.3.10,{6e84150a-d526-41f1-a480-a67d3fed910d}:1.3.8,{8f8fe09b-0bd3-4470-bc1b-8cad42b8203a}:0.14,{7CEA821D-3DAB-4238-B424-BF7324531750}:0.4.6,{c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12}:1.1.6,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.0.7
BuildID: 2009021906
CrashTime: 1237908400
InstallTime: 1236332118
ProductName: Firefox
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 174
StartupTime: 1237908336
Theme: classic/1.0
URL: 
http://www.google.fr/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.0.7

This report also contains technical information about the state of the 
application when it crashed.

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$ pdf2swf --version
pdf2swf - part of swftools 2009-03-15-1014


Here is the pdf and swf files. I will try and dig out the full log 
report that was sent to mozilla if this will help

Norman

Rob Nielsen wrote:
> I’m running the latest dev snapshot. I had a customer’s PowerPoint that 
> crashes Flash Player. The PPT is being converted to PDF using 
> OpenOffice.org and then to SWF using pdf2swf.
>
>  
>
> I’ve tracked the problem down to a semi-transparent shadow (PPT 
> terminology) on the left side of the object. The shadows doesn’t render 
> properly in OO or the PDF viewer. The resulting SWF crashes the Flash 
> Player.
>
>  
>
> The PPT, PDF and SWF are all available if anyone wants to looks at them.
>
>  
>
> If you want to create your own follow the steps below:
>
>  
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> 1. Create a new blank presentation.
>
> 2. Create a diamond shape (rectangles do not exhibit them problem).
>
> 3. Apply a shadow to the shape, place it on the lower left side and set 
> it to be semi-transparent in PowerPoint (50%-60% in OO Impress)
>
> 4. Export the presentation as a PDF. I use OO Impress.
>
> 5. Convert to SWF with pdf2swf –T 9
>
> 6. Open with Flash Player.
>
>  
>
> In PPT the shadow displays properly. In Impress and the PDF, the shadow 
> is just an outline. I assume this is contributing to the problem.
>
>  
>
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>
> Rob
>
>

test-shadow.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

test-shadow.swf
Description: application/shockwave-flash