3 This documentation is a little outdated. As with swftools-0.2.1 and
4 above, you can simply do
5 pdf2swf -bl -o document.swf document.pdf
6 to link viewer and preloader.
7 However, the Steps below are still valid for jpeg2swf.
9 Step 1: Converting the documents
11 Suppose you have an arbitrary pdf file, "document.pdf".
13 pdf2swf -o tmp.swf document.pdf
14 Now, tmp.swf is a Flash Movie generated from document.pdf. Movie means
15 that there are no navigation elements whatsoever. Just frames which
16 get displayed one by one, at a rate of approx. 1/2 frames/second. How
17 to make document browsable is explained below.
18 (You can do the same things described below with jpeg files. Simply
20 jpeg2swf -o tmp.swf pic1.jpeg pic2.jpeg ...
23 Step 2: Linking a viewer
25 Just take a viewer of your choice (e.g. [1]SimpleViewer.swf ) and put
26 it in the same directory where you entered the commands above.
28 swfcombine -o flashfile.swf SimpleViewer.swf viewport=tmp.swf
29 Now, 'flashfile.swf' is "browsable", i.e. there are some buttons in it
32 Step 3: Linking a Preloader
34 Depending on the size of your PDFs/SWFs, you may want to have some
35 kind of loading animation displayed while the browser is busy getting
36 the actual document. Assuming you have some file like flashfile.swf
37 above, you furthermore need the file [2]PreLoader.swf and an arbirtary
38 loading animation of your choice. (To get started, try [3]loading.swf,
39 or just convert a "Loading" JPEG picture to swf (jpeg2swf -o
40 loading.swf picture.jpg)) Now use
41 swfcombine -o flashfile.swf PreLoader.swf loader=loading.swf
43 (Most loaders are smaller than the document they load. They usually
44 need some centering so they appear in the middle of the page to be
45 displayed, not in the upper left corner. Replace the above command
47 swfcombine -o flashfile.swf PreLoader.swf -x 3000 -y 3000
48 loader=loading.swf movie=flashfile.swf
49 and try playing around with the values after -x and -y)
51 Step 4: Correcting the size and framerate
53 Sometimes, the bounding box of the generated flash file is not
54 correct. This happens because when linking a viewer or preloader to
55 the SWFs, the new dimensions are those of the PreLoader and Viewer
56 templates, and not those of your pdf or jpeg files. To fix this, use
57 swfcombine --dummy `swfdump -XY tmp.swf` flashfile.swf -o
59 (tmp.swf is your 'original' swf, generated like above)
60 You may also want to adjust the framerate of the movie to that of the
61 preloader. (As the preloader is usually the only animated part of e.g.
64 swfcombine --dummy `swfdump -r loading.swf` flashfile.swf -o
67 Step 5: Embedding the SWF into a html page
69 Usually, one wants to put the generated SWFs on his web page. To do
70 so, you have to embed the SWF file into html. If you don't know how to
71 embed SWFs into html pages, it's explained at
72 [4]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tn4150.html .
73 Also, you can simply type
74 swfdump --html flashfile.swf
75 and insert the output into your html document
77 Appendix A: Creating your own Viewers
79 If you know about Flash, and you want to substitute SimpleViewer from
80 above with something more sophisticated, follow these rules:
81 1. There has to be some rectangle (Movieclip, whatever... ) in your
82 Viewer, named "viewport". (This name is used to reference the object
83 when using swfcombine for merging it with the converted pdfs)
84 2. The First frame should contain an actionscript "Stop" instruction.
85 (Otherwise, the browsing buttons turn pages, but pages get also
86 automatically turned every few seconds)
87 3. Browsing buttons next to the rectangle (which turn pages in the
88 shown pdf) should trigger some Actionsscript events, like
94 to set the frame in the to-be-replaced rectangle. (It will be replaced
95 with a MovieClip, therefore a SetTarget is neccessary)
96 It's important that the Target Name ist "viewport", not "/viewport",
97 as the Movie will get inserted into a Movieclip (Sprite).
98 _________________________________________________________________
100 [5]Back to the SWFTools Project page
105 1. http://www.quiss.org/swftools/SimpleViewer.swf
106 2. http://www.quiss.org/swftools/PreLoader.swf
107 3. http://www.quiss.org/swftools/loading.swf
108 4. http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tn4150.html
109 5. http://www.quiss.org/swftools