+++ /dev/null
-1.) What's the price of swftools?
-
- SWFTools is free of charge (donations are welcome, though), and is
- released under the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
-
-2.) Where can I donate?
-
- You can donate via PayPal by clicking on the "donate" button
- on http://www.swftools.org/donate.html
- .
-
-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
-
- (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 freetype and jpeglib to compile pdf2swf.
- Links:
- freetype:
- http://www.freetype.org
- jpeglib:
- http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
-
-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:
-
- rm -f config.cache
- LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" ./configure
-
- Furthermore, a new installation of jpeglib (the following assumes it's in
- /usr/local/lib) often requires doing a
-
- 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.
-
-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'".
-
- Try running configure as
-
- LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ ./configure
-
-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
-
- 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
- .
- (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?
-
- 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:
-
- WARNING Font Myriad-Roman could not be loaded.
- WARNING Try putting a TTF version of that font (named "Myriad-Roman.ttf") into /swftools/fonts
-
- 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 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.
-
-11.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
-
- 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.
-
-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:
-
- swfcombine -dz file.swf -o file_new.swf
-
- compresses, while
-
- swfcombine -d file.swf -o file_new.swf
-
- decompresses.
-
-13.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
-
- Try using the -p (--flip) switch.
-
-14.) How to extract images/sounds from myfile.swf using swfextract?
-
- First list all extractable items:
-
- swfextract myfile.swf
-
- The result is something like:
-
- Objects in file myfile.swf:
- [-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
-
- Now you can extract a shape using
-
- swfextract -i 2 myfile.swf -o shape.swf
-
- a sound using
-
- swfextract -s 28 myfile.swf -o sound.wav
-
- a PNG image file using
-
- swfextract -p 318 myfile.swf -o file.png
-
- etc.
-
-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.
git.asbjorn.biz / swftools.git / commitdiff