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-Notice
-
- This documentation is a little outdated. As with swftools-0.2.1 and
- above, you can simply do
- pdf2swf -bl -o document.swf document.pdf
- to link viewer and preloader.
- However, the Steps below are still valid for jpeg2swf.
-
-Step 1: Converting the documents
-
- Suppose you have an arbitrary pdf file, "document.pdf".
- Call:
- pdf2swf -o tmp.swf document.pdf
- Now, tmp.swf is a Flash Movie generated from document.pdf. Movie means
- that there are no navigation elements whatsoever. Just frames which
- get displayed one by one, at a rate of approx. 1/2 frames/second. How
- to make document browsable is explained below.
- (You can do the same things described below with jpeg files. Simply
- use
- jpeg2swf -o tmp.swf pic1.jpeg pic2.jpeg ...
- and read on)
-
-Step 2: Linking a viewer
-
- Just take a viewer of your choice (e.g. [1]SimpleViewer.swf ) and put
- it in the same directory where you entered the commands above.
- Now call:
- swfcombine -o flashfile.swf SimpleViewer.swf viewport=tmp.swf
- Now, 'flashfile.swf' is "browsable", i.e. there are some buttons in it
- for turning pages.
-
-Step 3: Linking a Preloader
-
- Depending on the size of your PDFs/SWFs, you may want to have some
- kind of loading animation displayed while the browser is busy getting
- the actual document. Assuming you have some file like flashfile.swf
- above, you furthermore need the file [2]PreLoader.swf and an arbirtary
- loading animation of your choice. (To get started, try [3]loading.swf,
- or just convert a "Loading" JPEG picture to swf (jpeg2swf -o
- loading.swf picture.jpg)) Now use
- swfcombine -o flashfile.swf PreLoader.swf loader=loading.swf
- movie=flashfile.swf
- (Most loaders are smaller than the document they load. They usually
- need some centering so they appear in the middle of the page to be
- displayed, not in the upper left corner. Replace the above command
- with e.g.
- swfcombine -o flashfile.swf PreLoader.swf -x 3000 -y 3000
- loader=loading.swf movie=flashfile.swf
- and try playing around with the values after -x and -y)
-
-Step 4: Correcting the size and framerate
-
- Sometimes, the bounding box of the generated flash file is not
- correct. This happens because when linking a viewer or preloader to
- the SWFs, the new dimensions are those of the PreLoader and Viewer
- templates, and not those of your pdf or jpeg files. To fix this, use
- swfcombine --dummy `swfdump -XY tmp.swf` flashfile.swf -o
- flashfile.swf
- (tmp.swf is your 'original' swf, generated like above)
- You may also want to adjust the framerate of the movie to that of the
- preloader. (As the preloader is usually the only animated part of e.g.
- pdf viewers)
- Use:
- swfcombine --dummy `swfdump -r loading.swf` flashfile.swf -o
- flashfile.swf
-
-Step 5: Embedding the SWF into a html page
-
- Usually, one wants to put the generated SWFs on his web page. To do
- so, you have to embed the SWF file into html. If you don't know how to
- embed SWFs into html pages, it's explained at
- [4]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tn4150.html .
- Also, you can simply type
- swfdump --html flashfile.swf
- and insert the output into your html document
-
-Appendix A: Creating your own Viewers
-
- If you know about Flash, and you want to substitute SimpleViewer from
- above with something more sophisticated, follow these rules:
- 1. There has to be some rectangle (Movieclip, whatever... ) in your
- Viewer, named "viewport". (This name is used to reference the object
- when using swfcombine for merging it with the converted pdfs)
- 2. The First frame should contain an actionscript "Stop" instruction.
- (Otherwise, the browsing buttons turn pages, but pages get also
- automatically turned every few seconds)
- 3. Browsing buttons next to the rectangle (which turn pages in the
- shown pdf) should trigger some Actionsscript events, like
-
- SetTarget "viewport"
- NextFrame
- SetTarget ""
-
- to set the frame in the to-be-replaced rectangle. (It will be replaced
- with a MovieClip, therefore a SetTarget is neccessary)
- It's important that the Target Name ist "viewport", not "/viewport",
- as the Movie will get inserted into a Movieclip (Sprite).
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-References
-
- Visible links
- 1. http://www.quiss.org/swftools/SimpleViewer.swf
- 2. http://www.quiss.org/swftools/PreLoader.swf
- 3. http://www.quiss.org/swftools/loading.swf
- 4. http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tn4150.html
- 5. http://www.quiss.org/swftools
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