Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf quits without converting or warning at 'Generating info structure'

[Joseph Masoud]

On 08/02/10 15:07, Eric Adriaans | Dsens wrote:
> Hi Joseph, Chris,
>
> Thanx for your help :) I guess there is definitely some problem in our linux
> server setup... the bad thing is that I'm not much of a
> server-administrator. I know a bit of Linux, but when it comes to real
> problems, it's definitely not my thing, though I'm gonna try figuring it out
> :)
>
> Our server has the following setup:
> OS: CentOS 5
> CPU: 2x Intel Quad-Core Xeon L5410 / 12MB
> Linux version 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5PAE (address@hidden)
> gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
> Freetype: Package freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386 already installed and latest
> version
>
> Chris, you say that you have a server install with "a generic installation
> packed out with a raft of source code installs, including a straight
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local one of SWFTools 0.9.0."... Does that mean
> pdf2swf sort of stands on its own with its own libraries, without using the
> systems shared libraries?
>
> And is there a way to see where things actually go wrong after a conversion?
> Pdf2swf doesn't show me an error, but are there logfiles of libraries or
> something which I can check, so that I have a better overview of where
> things are going wrong, and what I might need to update/upgrade on our
> server?
>
> Eric
>    
Hi Eric,
Your reply has only come to me and not the whole list.  You need to 
click on reply all or ensure that "address@hidden" is in the 
cc or to field.

It took a while to get CentOS working properly with swftools, most of 
the problems I had were usually due to missing fonts / generally 
outdated libraries on the server OS.  You can use the verbose option in 
pdf2swf to get more details about the conversion:

pdf2swf -vvv file.pdf -o file.swf

(more v's gives more details)

That could be a good start.

Thanks,
Joseph