Flash Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v3.03, by Dr. Herong Yang
PDF2SWF - PDF to SWF File Conversion Tool
This section describes the PDF2SWF tool, which can be used to convert PDF files to SWF files.
The next tool I want to learn is PDF2SWF, which can be used to convert a PDF document into a Flash file.
Here is the manual page of PDF2SWF 0.9.1:
NAME pdf2swf - Converts Acrobat PDF files into Flash SWF Animation files. Synopsis pdf2swf [-options] file.pdf -o file.swf DESCRIPTION Converts a PDF file to a SWF file. OPTIONS -o, --output file.swf will go into a seperate file. -p, --pages range 3-5,10-12 -z, --zlib The resulting SWF will not be playable in browsers with Flash Plugins 5 and below! -j, --jpegquality quality Set quality of embedded jpeg pictures to quality. 0 is worst (small), 100 is best (big). (default:85) -s, --set param=value Set a SWF encoder specific parameter. See pdf2swf -s help for more information. -t, --stop The resulting SWF file will not turn pages automatically. -F, --fontdir directory Add directory to the font search path. -b, --defaultviewer The swf file will be "browseable", i.e. display some buttons for turning pages. The viewer swf to be used is "default_viewer.swf" in the swftools data directory. -l, --defaultloader The loader swf to be used is "default_loader.swf" in the swftools data directory. -B, --viewer filename See http://www.quiss.org/swftools/pdf2swf_usage.html for information on how to create your own viewers. -L, --preloader filename filename is an arbitrary swf animation. -S, --shapes Don't use SWF Fonts, but store everything as shape. -f, --fonts Store full fonts in SWF. (Don't reduce to used characters). -G, --flatten This usually makes the file faster to render and also usually smaller, but will increase conversion time. -Q, --maxtime n Abort conversion after n seconds. Only available on Unix. ...
Table of Contents
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Firefox
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Chrome
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Safari
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX for IE
Using "object" Elements for Flash Files
Using "embed" Elements for Flash Files
"mp3player" - MP3 Music Player
SWFObject - Hidding "object" behind JavaScript
►SWFTools - SWF File Manipulation Tools
Downloading and installing SWFTools
"swfdump" - Dump SWF File Header
"swfdump -E" - Generate HTML Code
JPEG2SWF - JPEG to SWF File Conversion Tool
"jpeg2swf *.jpg" - Create a Slide Show
►PDF2SWF - PDF to SWF File Conversion Tool
"pdf2swf" - Convert PDF to SWF
"master and slave" - Viewer and Page Frames
SWFCombine - SWF File Merging Tool
"swfcombine masterfile viewpoint=slavefile"
"swfcombine -a" - Concatenate SWF Files
"swfcombine -d" - Change Frame Rate and Size
SWFC Script to Generate Flash SWF Files
ActionScript Embedded in SWFC Script
AS3Compile - ActionScript 3 Compiler