1 1.) What's the cost of swftools?
3 SWFTools is free of charge, and is released under the GPL
4 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
6 2.) How to compile/link swftools?
8 Download swftools-0.4.2.tar.gz and t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz.
10 gzip -d swftools-0.4.2.tar.gz
11 gzip -d t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz
12 tar -xf t1lib-1.3.1.tar
18 tar -xf swftools-0.4.2.tar
24 3.) Is there a pdf2swf for Windows?
26 No. pdf2swf only runs on Unix platforms, like Linux, *BSD, MacOS X, etc.
27 There have been some reports on more or less successfully compling pdf2swf on Win32 using
28 Cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin), however, there's no working version
30 If you want to use pdf2swf, find a Unix machine.
32 4.) Is there *going to* be a pdf2swf for Windows?
34 Probably. As soon as we find the time to look into the Cygwin compile issues.
36 5.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
38 It supports PNG mode 2 transparency (alpha palettes) since version 0.4.2.
39 Mode 6 (32 bit RGBA truecolor) is also supported since version 0.4.3, however
40 it seems most Flash players don't handle the alpha channel in the resulting
41 32 bit images correctly.
43 6.) How to get Flash MX compression with SWFTools?
45 Most tools support the -z flag for outputting compressed SWF.
46 Furthermore you can compress/uncompress SWF files using swfcombine:
48 swfcombine -dz file.swf -o file_new.swf
52 swfcombine -d file.swf -o file_new.swf
56 7.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
58 Try using the -p (--flip) switch.
60 8.) How to extract images/sounds from myfile.swf using swfextract?
62 First list all extractable items:
66 The result is something like:
68 Objects in file myfile.swf:
70 MovieClips: 4, 5, 8, 10, 12
74 Frames: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
76 Not you can extract a shape using
78 swfextract -i 2 myfile.swf -o shape.swf
82 swfextract -s 28 myfile.swf -o sound.wav
84 a PNG image file using
86 swfextract -p 318 myfile.swf -o file.png
90 9.) Is there a mailing list for SWFTools?
92 There used to be, however it was shut down due to lack of traffic. The archive
93 is available as raw INBOX file on http://www.quiss.org/swftools/list.tar.gz.