[Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

[Alistair McNaught]

The more text can be stored in html or xml format the more accessible and malleable it is likely to be. The Flashpaper pagetype one of the least accessible in Xerte Toolkits suite of templates.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 25 August 2012 15:08
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Flashpaper and the like

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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