swftools

Part of the swftools download is pdf2swf, which we use with the MZ3 tools.

pdf2swf usually is called from the command line level; as we do it within the batch command file of our MZ3 tools.

Please download the latest released, stable version of swtools (actually it is version 0.9.1) from the swftools website.

Some utilities that come with the download are listed below. A complete list is available at swftool's website.

• PDF2SWF A PDF to SWF Converter thatgenerates one single frame (file) per page. It is based on the xpdf PDF parser from Derek B. Noonburg.
  This utitlity is used (embedded) in the batch command files of the MZ3 tools. 
• SWFDump Prints out various informations about SWFs, like contained images/fonts/sounds, disassembly of contained code as well as cross-reference and bounding box data.
  This utitily can help if the result of the conversion is not as expected.
• SWFBBox Allows to read out, optimize and readjust SWF bounding boxes.
  This utility helps to identify problems created by swf files that are not correctly scaled in the MZ3 title. 
  In those cases most probably there is white space around the "real" content, which makes the swf-"page" look biiger than intneded. Like a little "thumbnail" of your content in the upper left corner of a page.
  With the help of this utility you could adjust the bounding box to the desired size, i.e. that of your content.
• AS3Compile A standalone ActionScript 3.0 compiler. Mostly compatible with Flex.
  We have no experience with this tool, since we use FLEX, FLASH Builder and FLASH Pro.
  Just a hint for an alternative for those, who want to complie AS3 code.