Re: [Swftools-common] PDF spec used by PDF2SWF

[JL]

We tend to use PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4.0) if we run into problematic PDFs.

1.3 Did not support live transparencies. so the more complex elements are automatically flattened.

If you can provide your sample PDFs, we can probably provide some more insight.

Also, what arguments are you using with pdf2swf.  --flatten <-G> usually does a good job with problematic PDFs.  <-s -poly2bitmap> it probably the most failsafe option to include (not with flatten) but images will suffer unless you boost the resolution (which takes much longer to process in some cases)

Good Luck.

JL

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Matt Pearce <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I have a video conference service that converts PDF files to SWF for presentation. They are using PDF2SWF on the back end for the conversion.

Depending on how I create the PDF file on Mac 10.6.2, the SWF version is converted improperly in various ways:

1) Export directly from application: merged cells in tables lose their background color
2) Print using CUPS-PDF driver: random cells in tables are whited over and strange artifacts and lines appear
3) Convert using Adobe Distiller PDF/X-3:2002 seems to be ok, but I have to get the files into PS format to use distiller, and this is a manual process.

Can anyone tell me what PDF spec PDF2SWF will convert properly? Any ideas on what might be going on with these various PDF conversions?

Thanks for your help!
Matt

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