[Swftools-common] interesting challenge, willing to pay for a solution

[Michael Geary]

hi folks,

i'm in one of those cases where swftools gets me *really* close to a solution, 
but i have some unusual requirements that interfere. It's entirely possible 
that what i need isn't really possible, but you guys have already demonstrated 
some things with swftools that I wouldn't have thought possible, so i'm putting 
this out there. If a solution could be provided by customizing the source of 
swftools, i'm willing to pay someone to do that, assuming it doesn't exceed my 
budget.

Here's the situation: I have several PDF books that i'm turning into SWFs. They 
are children's books, so for the most part, there's a full-page graphic with a 
couple of text fields on top of it. I need to produce one swf per page, which i 
know i can do, but I also need all the *text* on the page to be placed into a 
named movieclip. I need the ability at runtime to toggle the visibility of the 
text. 

Unfortunately, it actually goes even one step further. In the lower left and 
right-hand corners there are page numbers. These text instances should *not* be 
included in the movieclip that contains the rest of the text on the page. That 
is, when i turn off the visibility of the text on the page, we don't want to 
hide the page numbers.

I'm open to all kinds of solutions. For example, one thing i thought of was to 
use the "-s textonly" parameter to create a series of SWFs without the 
pictures, and then (if it exists) run some sort of "-s notext" parameter to get 
a version without any text, and then use swfc to combine the two while giving 
the text a movieclip name. However, i don't know of any such parameter. 
Furthermore, this doesn't solve my problem with the page numbers, though it 
might get me far enough that I could do some manual post-processing and still 
be time ahead.

 On a related note, is there some resource where all the possible parameters 
for the -s flag? i looked at -s help, but didn't see "textonly", so i don't 
know if there are other hidden gems...

many thanks,

michael