[Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

[Pat Lockley]

i think those fingers are mostly in samsung's wallet today

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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