Re: [Swftools-common] Recent development snapshot - no text is rendering on my PDFs

[Ryan Gardner]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Matthias Kramm wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:10:37PM -0600, Ryan Gardner  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > the PDF that I was using as a test PDF is located here:
> >
> > http://filebin.ca/bsawoc/fundingAuthorization_wsignature.pdf
> >
> > Swftools previously worked just fine to convert these exact same pdfs
> > over. Is there a place I can post one of the PDF files so that
> > someone else can test one to see if it is my build that is screwey,
> > or if it is in fact a bug?
>
> I can't reproduce that problem with the latest development snapshot.
>
> According to the log, the character heights are all zero, which is
> pretty strange.
>
> You're saying you compiled swftools yourself? If yes, which version of
> freetype were you using? Also, were you using the snapshot or a CVS
> checkout of swftools?
>
> Greetings
>
> Matthias

Thanks for your reply. The version of freetype that I'm using is  
2.1.10 ( according to /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h )

I can go into my swftools-2007-07-08-1916 directory, make clean  /  
make  / sudo make install - and then run the command and it works fine
when I go into my swftools-2008-03-19-2300 directory, and attempt the  
same thing - the output is blank with those strange errors.

I'm building on Mac OS X 10.4.11. In order to get it to build, I had  
to edit the makefile and comment out the two lines that say to build  
python:

#       @echo making $@ in lib/python...#       cd lib/python;$(MAKE) $@
because if I let it go in there, it was giving me a strange linking  
error about _unwind something - and since I don't need python, it was  
easier to turn it off than to build it.
The files I am building from I obtained from:
http://www.swftools.org/swftools-dev.tar.gz

It's interesting that my older build works - but the newer one  
doesn't. I used the same configure options mentioned on the FAQ page  
(How do I compile swftools on Mac OS X?) on both the old version and  
the new version, so the libraries that it links with should be the same.

Any thoughts on what might be causing the strange behavior?	Would  
building from a CVS checkout be a better idea than the snapshot?

Ryan