SWFDump - SWF File Dump Tool

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∟SWFDump - SWF File Dump Tool

This section describes the SWFDump tool, which can be used to dump information from a Flash file.

The first tool I want to learn is SWFDump, which can be used to dump information from a Flash file.

Here is the manual page of SWFDump 0.9.1:

NAME
   swfdump - Display an SWF file's content.

Synopsis 
   swfdump [-atpdu] file.swf

DESCRIPTION 

   A tool for displaying information about flash files

   swfdump shows ids, names and depths of objects defined in the SWF
   file. It can furthermore also disassemble Actionscript, extract 
   texts, and display placement information about objects.

OPTIONS 

   -h, --help
      Print short help message and exit

   -D, --full
      Show everything. Same as -atp
   
   -E, --xhtml
      Print out xhtml code for embedding the file
   
   -a, --action
      Disassemble action tags
   
   -t, --text
      Show text fields (like swfstrings).
   
   -s, --shapes
      Show shape coordinates/styles
   
   -F, --fonts
      Show font information
   
   -p, --placements
      Show placement information
   
   -B, --buttons
      Show button information
   
   -b, --bbox
      Print tag's bounding boxes
   
   -d, --hex
      Print hex output of tag data, too.
   
   -u, --used
      Show referred IDs for each Tag.
      
   ...

AUTHOR 
   Matthias Kramm <kramm@quiss.org>