I wouldn't say it's an Excel problem. In fact it depends on the PDF converter how gridlines are expressed in PDF. For example, my Cutewriter creates grey lines (not patterned), but Acrobat 6 creates the tiled patterns.
I could imagine that there are other programs that create patterns. For example, I have seen many Powerpoint presentations with transparency where the transparent bits are converted to patterns by some PDF converters. I suppose that this mostly happens with older versions, yet I think it's almost impossible to rule out that such files will come across. If pdf2swf is used as a server software with multiple file sources, then it would be useful to have a solution for it in pdf2swf. Would it be conceivable to put such an option into the program that only converts patterns to bitmaps and uses them as a fillstyle? Regards, Sander. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: swftools-common-bounces+s.kruger=3gsp...@nongnu.org [mailto:swftools-common-bounces+s.kruger=3gsp...@nongnu.org] Namens Chris Pugh Verzonden: donderdag 26 november 2009 19:15 Aan: Sander Kruger CC: swftools-common@nongnu.org Onderwerp: Re: [Swftools-common] Tiled patterns and shape overflow >2009/11/26 Sander Kruger <s.kru...@3gsp.eu>: > Hello, > > I haven't found an etiquette page for this list, so I hope I'm in the right > place. > > > Is there a way to optimize pdf2swf for documents containing tiled patterns? > For example, I have an Excel file that, when printed to PDF with visible > gridlines results in a modest PDF file of 18k. > > However, the gridlines are drawn with a tiled pattern, resulting in a shape > overflow. I think this happens because pdf2swf defines every shape in the > pattern as a separate shape. > Just maybe this is an Excel specific issue? Have you tried all the available options within Excel? I don';t use Excel. I do however use Gnumeric and OpenOffice Calc ( under both Windows and Linux ). Neither appear to exhibit such an effect when a gridded sheet is converted to a pdf with pdf2swf. Even under maximum zoom. Regards, Chris.