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.) configure doesn't find my jpeglib / my t1lib!
26 In case some of your libraries/include files are installed in /usr/local,
30 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" ./configure
32 Furthermore, a new installation of jpeglib (the following assumes it's in
33 /usr/local/lib) often requires doing a
35 ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a
36 ldconfig /usr/local/lib
38 If it still doesn't work, try removing the file "config.cache"
39 before running configure again.
41 4.) There are problems during compilation:
42 Error messages complain about "undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'"
43 as well as "undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'".
45 Try running configure as
47 LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ ./configure
49 5.) Is there a pdf2swf for Windows?
51 Windows versions of all SWF utilities (except for avi2swf) are in
52 http://www.quiss.org/swftools/swftools-win32.zip
54 Notice: You need to unzip the Archive to C:\SWFTOOLS to make pdf2swf work-
55 otherwise it won't be able to find it's fonts.
57 7.) The fonts in the SWFs generated by pdf2swf are wrong!
59 Try running pdf2swf with the "-v" switch.
60 If you see a line reading "substituting VerySpecialFont -> Times-Roman", then pdf2swf
61 didn't find some fonts, which may be external references in the pdf.
62 To fix this, copy the fonts into your current directory and pass the "-F ./" (--fontpath ./)
63 option to pdf2swf. (This doesn't yet work with TTF, only with Type1 Fonts. You can
64 convert TTF to Type1, however, using ttf2pt1 (http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net)).
65 The font files should, in this case, have the filenames VerySpecialFont.afm and
66 VerySpecialFont.pfa (.pfb).
68 8.) Can png2swf handle transparency?
70 It supports PNG mode 2 transparency (256 color palettes with alpha) since version 0.4.2.
71 Mode 6 (32 bit RGBA truecolor) is also supported since version 0.4.4.
73 9.) How to do Flash MX compression with SWFTools?
75 Most tools support the -z flag for outputting compressed SWF.
76 Furthermore you can compress/uncompress SWF files using swfcombine:
78 swfcombine -dz file.swf -o file_new.swf
82 swfcombine -d file.swf -o file_new.swf
86 10.) avi2swf converts my avi files upside down!
88 Try using the -p (--flip) switch.
90 11.) How to extract images/sounds from myfile.swf using swfextract?
92 First list all extractable items:
96 The result is something like:
98 Objects in file myfile.swf:
100 MovieClips: 4, 5, 8, 10, 12
104 Frames: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
106 Not you can extract a shape using
108 swfextract -i 2 myfile.swf -o shape.swf
112 swfextract -s 28 myfile.swf -o sound.wav
114 a PNG image file using
116 swfextract -p 318 myfile.swf -o file.png
120 12.) Is there a mailing list for SWFTools?
122 Yes there is. You can subscribe by going to
124 http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common