Re: [Swftools-common] [pdf2swf] 0.9.1; File is too complex to render- SWF only supports 65536 shapes ...

[filip sound]

one difference between pdf and swf is that swf can have a maximum of
64k segments for a drawn shape. this means that you have to do some
preprocessing to the pdfs if they contain objects like this. you can
look for "flattening" or "reduction" of the file. in most cases this
error comes up when the pdf page is containing a very complex
vector-object like a logo whis has for example a gradient filling
somewhere that consists of a separate shape for every color (some
stupid pdf writers do that if you dont tell them to stop it).

ok, hope this helps - sorry for the very general answer... dont want
to get into code now (just came home from work...).

greetings,
  filip


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:58 PM, James Hong Kong
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We got the following error messages.
>
> ERROR   ID Table overflow
> ERROR   This file is too complex to render- SWF only supports 65536
> shapes at once" from "("C:\temp\SWFtools\pdf2swf.exe"
> ".../images/e/ea/Test147.pdf" -o
> ".../images/e/ea/94b6f07a1bee0621be5d14a460731564.swf" -f -T 9 -t -s
> storeallcharacters) "
>
> How to deal with such errors best?
>
> PS: This problem is different from the one we describe with password
> protected files.
>
> Cheers
>
> MWJames
>
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