[Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

[Pat Lockley]

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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