[Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

[Kemp Johnathan]

That may well be a more forward looking solution - what does it do with the
graphics in the pdf file?

As for the flashPaper aspect I suppose it could be questioned whether the
need for this will persist?

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 25 August 2012 13:01, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The HTML 5 person in me says there is pdf.js - which takes a PDF and
> makes HTML out of it - so that might be better than a converter?
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Kemp Johnathan
> <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone out there using a free software solution for converting their
> Word
> > or Open Office Writer documents to .swf files similar to flashPaper?
> >
> > Recent discussions on the list lead me to look at free options and I
> found
> > pdf2swf, part of the swfTools download.
> >
> > However at present its viewer appears limited in that I cannot find a
> way of
> > increasing the width of the display window whilst retaining the same
> height,
> > so as to allow for a larger size text display, without causing the
> display
> > to be distorted horizontally.
> >
> > Is anyone else using pdf2swf?
> >
> > Does anyone know of any other completely free, unrestricted, software
> > alternatives?
> >
> > I am already aware that Open Office Impress has an export to swf option.
> > What I am looking for is something that will handle Writer documents or
> will
> > take the output that would be printed and convert it to a swf file.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Johnathan
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