On 19 August 2010 02:52, Pree Kolari <p...@memetales.com> wrote: > Thanks appreciate your response.
See bottom post for response.. > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Chris Pugh <nisse...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 >> Welcome. Here's a very rough and ready.example to try locally. Obviously you'd need better process control, so the user either knows what's happening, and/or has somethng to entertain them while the conversion takes place! ;o) <?php passthru (' your path to ]/pdf2swf input_pdf.pdf -o ['your path to public url]/output_swf.swf'); passthru ('/usr/local/bin/swfdump -E output_swf.swf > output.html'); header("Location: output.html"); ?> NB Watch your permissions if you try this remotely. Doing this kind of thing web side could have a few nasty consequences if they are unrestricted! I've replied On-List, since I presume your email to me was meant to go there! ;o) Regards, Chris.
