[Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

[Dave Burnett]

>
it could be questioned whether the need for this will persist 
>From beyond the grave, the cold fingers of Jobs touch the living.

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:01:00 +0100
From: johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

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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