pdf2swf -bl -o document.swf document.pdf
to link viewer and preloader.
However, the Steps below are still valid for jpeg2swf.
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Step 1: Converting the documents
Suppose you have an arbitrary pdf file, "document.pdf".
use
jpeg2swf -o tmp.swf pic1.jpeg pic2.jpeg ...
and read on)
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Step 2: Linking a viewer
Just take a viewer of your choice (e.g. [1]SimpleViewer.swf ) and put
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.
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Step 3: Linking a Preloader
Depending on the size of your PDFs/SWFs, you may want to have some
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)
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Step 4: Correcting the size and framerate
Sometimes, the bounding box of the generated flash file is not
Use:
swfcombine --dummy `swfdump -r loading.swf` flashfile.swf -o
flashfile.swf
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Step 5: Embedding the SWF into a html page
Usually, one wants to put the generated SWFs on his web page. To do
Also, you can simply type
swfdump --html flashfile.swf
and insert the output into your html document
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Appendix A: Creating your own Viewers
If you know about Flash, and you want to substitute SimpleViewer from
when using swfcombine for merging it with the converted pdfs)
2. Browsing buttons next to the rectangle (which turn pages in the
shown pdf) should trigger some Actionsscript events, like
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SetTarget "viewport"
NextFrame
SetTarget ""
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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.
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