RE: [Swftools-common] PDF not converted to SWF

[MG Balaji]

Hi filip,
 
Thanks for your reply.
 
Now only i come to know these are the warnings are not supported by pdf2swf tool. Thanks for your informaiton.
 
Can you explain how to use gs to convert these pdfs to swf? I need the swf should be searchable(text) one.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Balaji...
 

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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:13:04 +0200
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] PDF not converted to SWF
From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden

hi,

there are several types of groups that are not supported yes:

the worst thing is when you get warnings only (for some pdf) ... those look ugly then but the swf is generated.
i catch those convertions using an array of warning messages that i search for in the output string.

"WARNING softlight blended transparency groups not yet supported!",
"WARNING hardlight blended transparency groups not yet supported!",
"WARNING colordodge blended transparency groups not yet supported!",
"WARNING screen blended transparency groups not yet supported!",
"WARNING lighten blended transparency groups not yet supported!",
"WARNING multiply blended transparency groups not yet supported!"

your problem seems to be close to this.
pdf2swf currently is not capable of all types of pdf - i'm sorry to say that.

i use ghostscript to handle those pages that cause errors or certain warnings.
gs is very slow compared to pdf2swf but it succeeds in all the cases where pdf2swf fails.

you can then use jpeg2swf if you need swfs (good solution for skalable output).

filip

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, MG Balaji <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi All,
 
While converting PDF to SWF, showing an error like "FATAL Internal error: badly balanced softmasks/transparency groups" and the PDF file not converted to SWF.
 
Why this error occuring and why the PDF file is not converted to SWF? How can I resolve this issue? Is there any options available in pdf2swf tool?
 
I am using the "swftools-2009-02-16-1757" snop.
 
Thanks...
 
Regards,
Balaji
 
 

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