Re: [Swftools-common] PDF takes forever to process (possibly never finishes)

[Matthew Richer]

Hello,

 

I have access to about 10-20 PDFs that are experiencing this issue, and the problem seems to be growing.  I’ve tried the latest snapshot to see if it was something that may have already been address but I guess not.  Anyone have any ideas to help to at least detect the potential issue so I can make appropriate changes or even better a fix?

 

Cheers!

 

Matt

 

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Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] PDF takes forever to process (possibly never finishes)

 

Hello everyone,

 

I have a PDF which I’ve generated from an AI file (using GhostScript).  I then want to take the AI file to SWF using PDF2SWF.  The problem is the file never finishes processing.   The only way I can get it to complete is to use “-O1”, however, in a programmatic environment I cannot readily detect this scenario without the use of some large process timeout and then utilize the O1 parameter.  Is it possible there is a bug here or some other optimal workaround?

 

Thanks for the info!

 

Cheers,

 

Matt.

 

 

AI File:  http://www.salmizar.com/BadAI.ai

PDF File: http://www.salmizar.com/BadAI.pdf

 

PDF2SWF Command:

pdf2swf -T9 -s linksopennewwindow -s linknameurl --set storeallcharacters="1" -z "C:\TEMP\BadAI.pdf" -o "D:\TEMP\BadAI.swf"

 

Verbose Output Command:

pdf2swf -vvv "D:\TEMP\BadAI.pdf" -o "D:\TEMP\BadAI.swf"

 

Stops at:

:clip:

DEBUG   |     moveTo 390.30 504.90

DEBUG   |     lineTo 392.90 507.95

DEBUG   |     lineTo 395.15 510.40

DEBUG   |     lineTo 392.50 507.30

DEBUG   |     lineTo 390.30 504.90

TRACE   record: 00b78d18 FILL

TRACE   restoreState 00B71290 (end clipping)

DEBUG   updateLineDash, 0 dashes

TRACE   record: 00b78d18 ENDCLIP

TRACE   restoreState 00BD7380 (end softmask) (end clipping)

VERBOSE clearSoftMask statepos=3

TRACE   record: 00b78d18 END

TRACE   replay: STARTCLIP

TRACE   replay: FILL

TRACE   replay: FILL   (repeats over and over)

 

Thanks again.