1 1.) What's the cost of swftools?
3 SWFTools is free of charge, and is released under the GPL
4 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
6 2.) How to compile/link swftools?
8 Download swftools-0.4.2.tar.gz and t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz.
10 gzip -d swftools-0.4.2.tar.gz
11 gzip -d t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz
12 tar -xf t1lib-1.3.1.tar
18 tar -xf swftools-0.4.2.tar
24 3.) Is there a pdf2swf for Windows?
26 No. pdf2swf only runs on Unix platforms, like Linux, *BSD, MacOS X, etc.
27 There have been some successes reported on compling pdf2swf on Win32 using
28 Cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin), however, there's no working version
30 If you want to use pdf2swf, find a Unix machine.
32 4.) Is there *going to* be a pdf2swf for Windows?
34 Probably. As soon as we find the time to look into the Cygwin compile issues.
36 5.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
40 6.) How to get Flash MX compression with SWFTools?
42 Most tools support the -z flag for outputting compressed SWF.
43 Furthermore you can compress/uncompress SWF files using swfcombine:
45 swfcombine -dz file.swf -o file_new.swf
49 swfcombine -d file.swf -o file_new.swf
53 7.) Is there a mailing list for SWFTools?
55 There used to be, however it was shut down due to lack of traffic. The archive
56 is available as raw INBOX file on http://www.quiss.org/swftools/list.tar.gz.
58 8.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
60 Try using the -p (--flip) switch.