If it still doesn't work, try removing the file "config.cache"
before running configure again.
-4.) Is there a pdf2swf for Windows?
+4.) There are problems during compilation:
+ Error messages complain about "undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'"
+ as well as "undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'".
- No. pdf2swf only runs on Unix platforms, like Linux, *BSD, MacOS X, etc.
- There have been some reports on more or less successfully compling pdf2swf on Win32 using
- Cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin), however, there's no working version yet.
+ Try running configure as
- If you want to use pdf2swf, find a Unix machine.
+ LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ ./configure
-5.) Is there *going to* be a pdf2swf for Windows?
+5.) Is there a pdf2swf for Windows?
+
+ Windows versions of all SWF utilities can be downloaded at
+ http://www.quiss.org/swftools/swftools-win32.zip
+ .
+ You need to unzip the Archive to C:\SWFTOOLS to make it work though-
+ otherwise pdf2swf won't be able to find it's fonts.
+
+6.) Is there *going to* be a pdf2swf for Windows?
Probably. As soon as we find the time to look into the Cygwin compile issues.
-6.) The fonts in the SWFs generated by pdf2swf are wrong!
+7.) The fonts in the SWFs generated by pdf2swf are wrong!
Try running pdf2swf with the "-v" switch.
If you see a line reading "substituting VerySpecialFont -> Times-Roman", then pdf2swf
The font files should, in this case, have the filenames VerySpecialFont.afm and
VerySpecialFont.pfa (.pfb).
-7.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
+8.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
It supports PNG mode 2 transparency (256 color palettes with alpha) since version 0.4.2.
Mode 6 (32 bit RGBA truecolor) is also supported since version 0.4.4.
-8.) How to do Flash MX compression with SWFTools?
+9.) How to do Flash MX compression with SWFTools?
Most tools support the -z flag for outputting compressed SWF.
Furthermore you can compress/uncompress SWF files using swfcombine:
decompresses.
-9.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
+10.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
Try using the -p (--flip) switch.
-10.) How to extract images/sounds from myfile.swf using swfextract?
+11.) How to extract images/sounds from myfile.swf using swfextract?
First list all extractable items:
etc.
-11.) Is there a mailing list for SWFTools?
+12.) Is there a mailing list for SWFTools?
Yes there is. You can subscribe by going to