FIrst I want to say I'm very impressed with SWFtools, thanks so much for the work you guys put into it.
I originally wanted to embed an SWF movie I generated from SWFtools into Powerpoint, but upon finding out that I can only embed on a PC, I decided to try to just generate the entire presentation in SWF.
To generate my animation movie, which is essentially a slide show with controls, I did the following:
* Generate an SWF from images using png2swf. * Wrap the SWF from above with another SWF with controls using swfcombine.
The SWF movie essentially stops on the first frame, and if you click play, it uses an event loop to loop through the animations at a user-determined .
Finally, I wanted to embed the animation movie generated above into another SWF that I generated from a PDF using pdf2swf. I also used the keyboard_viewer so the presentation wouldn't go on without user input. My method for inserting the animation movie into my presentation was to embed an image of a pre-determined size into the PDF I generated, use swfdump to determine the ID of the shape that it made, and then use swfcombine to replace the image shapes with the animation movie from above.
I've been able to do it, but only with limited results. The best I can get to is it for it to be embedded and the controls of the animation movie not work (presentation navigation seems to work fine, just not the embedded animation movie controls), or for it to embed the animation movie but when I play it the presentation, it displays the animation movie, which is on page 2 (it seems to overlay on top of the outer presentation movie.
So I guess what I'm wondering is, is this too ambitious for SWFtools? Is it achievable with just swfcombine, or do I need an swfc script. And if I need a script, could someone give me an example? I would greatly appreciate it!