-1.) What's the cost of swftools?
+1.) What's the price of swftools?
- SWFTools is free of charge, and is released under the GPL
- (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
+ SWFTools is free of charge (donations are welcome, though), and is
+ released under the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
-2.) How to compile/link swftools on Unix/Linux/BSD?
+2.) Where can I donate?
- Download swftools-0.x.x.tar.gz and t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz.
+ You can donate via PayPal by clicking on the "donate" button
+ on http://www.swftools.org/donate.html
+ .
- gzip -d swftools-0.x.x.tar.gz
- gzip -d t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz
- tar -xf t1lib-1.3.1.tar
- cd t1lib-1.3.1
- ./configure
- make
- make install
- cd ..
- tar -xf swftools-0.x.x.tar
+3.) How to compile/link swftools on Unix/Linux/BSD?
+
+ Download swftools-0.x.x.tar.gz. Then type, on the
+ command-line:
+
+ tar -zvxf swftools-0.x.x.tar
cd swftools-0.x.x
./configure
make
make install
-3.) What libraries do I need to compile swftools on Unix/Linux/BSD?
+ (you will have to be root for the last step)
+
+4.) What libraries do I need to compile swftools on Unix/Linux/BSD?
- You need t1lib and jpeglib to compile pdf2swf.
+ You need freetype and jpeglib to compile pdf2swf.
Links:
- t1lib:
- ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/libs/graphics/t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz
- t1lib (mirrored here):
- http://www.quiss.org/swftools/t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz
+ freetype:
+ http://www.freetype.org
jpeglib:
http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
- Furthermore, if you want to compile avi2swf, you need the avifile library:
- http://avifile.sourceforge.net
- .
-
-4.) when compiling the sourcecode version, configure doesn't find my jpeglib / my t1lib!
+5.) when compiling the sourcecode version, configure doesn't find my jpeglib!
In case some of your libraries/include files are installed in /usr/local,
try the following:
ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a
ldconfig /usr/local/lib
+ In order to install jpeglib, it's furthermore been remarked that you need
+ to do
+ make install-lib
+ make install-headers
+ .
+
If it still doesn't work, try removing the file "config.cache"
before running configure again.
-5.) There are problems during compilation:
+6.) There are problems during compilation:
Error messages complain about "undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'"
as well as "undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'".
LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ ./configure
-6.) Is there a pdf2swf for Windows?
+7.) How do I compile swftools on Mac OS X?
+
+ You need to get fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net), and install it.
+ After this, you need to install all the required libs (jpeg, freetype, lame):
+
+ fink install libjpeg libjpeg-shlibs freetype2 freetype2-shlibs lame lame-shlibs
+
+ Then, you have to inform configure of where they are:
+
+ LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/sw/include -I/sw/include/lame" ./configure
+ make
+ sudo make install
- Windows versions of all SWF utilities (except for avi2swf) are downloadable from
+ If this doesn't work, especially if you want to use the python library and
+ get weird exceptions, try to remove all versions of jpeglib, freetype and
+ lame from /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, and then run configure / make / make install
+ again.
+
+ If you also want to use the python interface, you may have to copy the
+ Imaging headers (Imaging.h, ImPlatform.h, ImConfig.h) to
+ /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/include/python2.3/
+ before running configure.
+
+8.) Is there a pdf2swf/avi2swf for Windows?
+
+ Windows versions of all SWF utilities are downloadable from
http://www.quiss.org/swftools/download.html
.
- Notice: For now, the utilities need to be installed to C:\SWFTOOLS to make pdf2swf work-
- otherwise it won't be able to find it's fonts.
+ (There's a self-extracting .exe version of all versions since 0.6.1,
+ and a .zip or .rar archive of the newest development snapshot)
+
+9.) Where's the source code of the Windows version?
-7.) The fonts in the SWFs generated by pdf2swf are wrong!
+ It's the same as the Unix source code. If you want to compile
+ under Windows, it's recommended that you get the CVS version
+ of the sources.
+ You need MingW (http://www.mingw.org) to compile it.
+ When cross-compiling under Linux, e.g. the following generates the Windows .exe files:
+
+ CXX=i386-mingw32msvc-g++ CPP=i386-mingw32msvc-cpp CC=i386-mingw32msvc-gcc \
+ ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc && make
+
+ For compiling on Windows itself, there's a HOWTO from Daichi Shinozaki:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/swftools-common/2005-02/msg00023.html
+
+10.) The fonts in the SWFs generated by pdf2swf are wrong!
Watch the output of pdf2swf closely.
You should see something like:
Provided you actually own the font in question (here: Myriad-Roman.ttf),
you can copy that fonts into your current directory and pass
the "-F ./" (--fontpath ./) option to pdf2swf.
- If you use a page in several PDFs, you can also simply copy it
+ If you use a font in several PDFs, you can also simply copy it
to (on Windows) C:\SWFTools\Fonts\, or (on Unix) /usr/local/share/swftools/fonts
to make it work all the time.
-8.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
+11.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
- It supports PNG mode 2 transparency (256 color palettes with alpha) since version 0.4.2.
+ Yes. 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.
-9.) How to do Flash MX compression with SWFTools?
+12.) 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.
-10.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
+13.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
Try using the -p (--flip) switch.
-11.) How to extract images/sounds from myfile.swf using swfextract?
+14.) How to extract images/sounds from myfile.swf using swfextract?
First list all extractable items:
The result is something like:
Objects in file myfile.swf:
- 3 Shapes: ID(s) 1-3
- 5 MovieClips: ID(s) 4, 5, 8, 10, 12
- 3 JPEGs: ID(s) 69, 116, 447
- 1 PNG: ID(s) 318
- 3 Sounds: ID(s) 28-30
- 10 Frames: ID(s) 0-10
+ [-i] 3 Shapes: ID(s) 1-3
+ [-i] 5 MovieClips: ID(s) 4, 5, 8, 10, 12
+ [-j] 3 JPEGs: ID(s) 69, 116, 447
+ [-p] 1 PNG: ID(s) 318
+ [-s] 3 Sounds: ID(s) 28-30
+ [-f] 10 Frames: ID(s) 0-10
- Not you can extract a shape using
+ Now you can extract a shape using
swfextract -i 2 myfile.swf -o shape.swf
etc.
-12.) Is there a mailing list for SWFTools?
+15.) Is there a mailing list for SWFTools?
Yes there is. You can subscribe by going to
http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common
+16.) Why didn't Matthias answer my swftools-related mail?
+
+ Currently, Matthias is getting much more mails than he can answer. It's frustrating,
+ but it's true.
+ He tries his best to at least *read* all mails he receives.
+ If you need an answer to something, it's usually more effective to post it on the
+ mailing list, though, as there are a lot of friendly users around there which may
+ have the one or other helpful tip concerning your problem.
+
+16.) When will feature/bugfix/enhancement XY be implemented?
+
+ Setting deadlines in a non-commercial, spare-time project like swftools tools is hard,
+ and keeping them is even harder, if not impossible.
+
+ Therefore, do not ask about deadlines, and you won't get fuzzy, or even wrong, answers.
+
+17.) How to compile avi2swf?
+
+ avi2swf isn't part of the swftools distribution anymore. If you want to convert avi files
+ to swf, please use either mencoder or ffmpeg:
+
+ mencoder file.avi -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames \
+ -ffourcc FLV1 -oac mp3lame -of lavf -ovc lavc \
+ -lavcopts vcodec=flv:acodec=mp3:vbitrate=500:abitrate=56 -srate 22050 \
+ -o file.swf
+
+ or
+
+ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -b <bitrate> -s <X>y<Y> -pass 1 -passlogfile log_file video.flv
+ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -b <bitrate> -s <X>y<Y> -pass 2 -passlogfile log_file video.flv
+ flvtool2 -UP video.flv
+
+18.) How can I create transparent SWFs from PDFs?
+
+ Run pdf2swf as usual, and then, on the resulting file, execute:
+
+ swfextract -i 3- file.swf -o file.swf
+
+19.) How can I convert SWF frames to bitmap?
+
+ There's a "swfrender" utility in the CVS, which isn't finished yet,
+ and will only work for *very* simple SWF files. (No Actionscript, no
+ gradient fills, no morph shapes, no blending modes, no filters, etc.)
+ Probably other Flash Open-Source projects (like Gnash) have some
+ more sophisticated utilities for this. (One user reported that
+ swfdec (http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/) and pyswfdec
+ (http://www.gnome.org/~gianmt) work good)
+ If you find other tools that work, I'd like to know about it.
+ Please mail me at kramm@quiss.org.
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