Re: [Swftools-common] [pdf2swf] 0.9.1, PDF's with a security level don't return a clear error code

[James Hong Kong]

HI Chris,

We prepared a use case (where file that is used is password protected)
and checked on the command line (The test runs on a Windows Vista,
Japanese OS) with something like:

...\SWFtools\pdf2swf.exe" "\...\Test125.pdf" -o "\..\Test125.swf" -v
-f -T 9 -t -s storeallcharacters but even with -v their is no "FATAL
PDF disallows copying" or any other error message at all.

Cheers,



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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:23:13 +0900
> From: James Hong Kong <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Swftools-common] [pdf2swf] 0.9.1; PDF's with a security
>        level don't return a clear error code
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> Hi,
>
> We currently working with swftools 0.9.1 and doing some background
> generation through pdf2swf.exe. In some of our cases pdf's have
> security levels (content copying not allowed etc.) but when pdf2swf
> tries to convert them they do not return with an error code, so the
> program that manages the batch job assumes pdf2swf did convert the pdf
> and everything worked fine but unfortunately for those with a security
> issue no FAIL error was returned and therefore no log entry was
> issued.
>
> Some feedback would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:17:00 +0900
> From: 4COLORS ??? <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Swftools-common] swfstrings Japanese
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> Hi,
>
> Wondering if it's possible to extract Japanese texts using swfstrings.exe
> I tried but had encoding problems.
>
> pdf2swf converts Japanese text without problems.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:02:17 -0100
> From: Chris <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] [pdf2swf] 0.9.1; PDF's with a security
>        level don't return a clear error code
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:23:13 +0900
> James Hong Kong <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We currently working with swftools 0.9.1 and doing some background
>> generation through pdf2swf.exe. In some of our cases pdf's have
>> security levels (content copying not allowed etc.) but when pdf2swf
>> tries to convert them they do not return with an error code, so the
>> program that manages the batch job assumes pdf2swf did convert the pdf
>> and everything worked fine but unfortunately for those with a security
>> issue no FAIL error was returned and therefore no log entry was
>> issued.
>>
>> Some feedback would be much appreciated.
>
> Maybe your batch file needs amending to catch the error?
>
> Try using -v [verbose] with the pdf2swf command, and parse the output for
> 'FATAL PDF disallows copying'.
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Chris.
>
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