[Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

[Pat Lockley]

I think PDF's store the Jpegs as a string and you can send the HTML 5
canvas element raw data in this form

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Kemp Johnathan
<johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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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