On 18 August 2010 00:48, Pree Kolari <p...@memetales.com> wrote: > Any body has experience running pdf2swf on a hosted server like slicehost? > Scribd does it and I am looking to do part of what scribd does (just the > part that converts pdf to swf). > > I am hoping it can be used to generate swf files via a web interface. Any > pointers to how someone else has done it would be really helpful. > Thanks in advance. > > -pree
If the enviroment that you are installing swftools into meets all the necessary prerequsites ( and since Slicehost is a VPS provider with root access, they should either already be there in the distribtuion you choose, or if missing you could install tem ) , then there should be very little difference to running any of the tools locally. If you are looking to trigger conversions 'on-the-fly', then you obviosuly have a bit of scripting to do in whatever is your favourite choice, of poison, i.e. Perl, Python, PHP, http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.exec.php HTH. Regards, Chris.