Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf link detection

[German Geek]

Hi All,

Just looked myself and found that it seems like one can detect links in a PDF and even their position relative to the top left corner of the PDF.

Here is the output of "pdf2swf -vvvv -p 1 pdf.pdf -o 1.swf":

DEBUG   drawlink
TRACE   drawlink 95.00/442.00 255.00/442.00 255.00/432.00 95.00/432.00
DEBUG   |     moveTo 95.00 442.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 255.00 442.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 255.00 432.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 95.00 432.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 95.00 442.00
TRACE   drawlink action="">TRACE   drawlink s= http://www.adobe.com/suportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN5150.
PDFMARK.PDF
NOTICE  File contains links
TRACE   drawgfxline, 4 lines, 0 splines
TRACE   drawgfxline, 4 lines, 0 splines
TRACE   Placing link ID 170
VERBOSE "URI" link to " http://www.adobe.com/suportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN5
150.PDFMARK.PDF" (-1)
DEBUG   drawlink
TRACE   drawlink 95.00/453.00 255.00/453.00 255.00/443.00 95.00/443.00
DEBUG   |     moveTo 95.00 453.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 255.00 453.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 255.00 443.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 95.00 443.00
DEBUG   |     lineTo 95.00 453.00
TRACE   drawlink action="">TRACE   drawlink s= http://www.adobe.com/suportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN5150.
PDFMARK.PDF

I guess that 
TRACE drawlink 95.00/453.00 255/453.00 255.00/443.00 95.00/443.00
...
TACE drawlink s= http://www.adobe.com/suportservice/revrelations/PDFS/TN5150.PDFMARK.PDF
gives me the exact rectangle of the link. This is great! I just need to parse it and we can use it.

Please correct if I'm wrong. Thanks.

Cheers,
Tim
++Tim Hinnerk Heuer++

http://www.ihostnz.com

On 18 April 2010 18:25, German Geek <geek.de@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, I have. Was just wondering if it could be automated to get links from the pdf outside of the swf so we can parse them later on and let users edit them.

++Tim Hinnerk Heuer++

http://www.ihostnz.com

On 18 April 2010 04:37, Mark Lee <address@hidden> wrote:

Have you read the documentation? There are a host of options for hyperlinks using pdf2swf.exe command line.

 

Mark

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From: German Geek <geek.de@gmail.com>
To: SWF Tools <address@hidden>
Sent: Sat, April 17, 2010 3:05:14 AM
Subject: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf link detection

Hi All,

I was just wondering if there is a way to detect hyperlinks in a PDF with pdf2swf. Maybe with verbose output of some level? Have not tried this but will when i get a chance. It would be nice.

Regards,
Tim
++Tim Hinnerk Heuer++

http://www.ihostnz.com

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