hi folks, i'm in one of those cases where swftools gets me *really* close to a solution, but i have some unusual requirements that interfere. It's entirely possible that what i need isn't really possible, but you guys have already demonstrated some things with swftools that I wouldn't have thought possible, so i'm putting this out there. If a solution could be provided by customizing the source of swftools, i'm willing to pay someone to do that, assuming it doesn't exceed my budget.
Here's the situation: I have several PDF books that i'm turning into SWFs. They are children's books, so for the most part, there's a full-page graphic with a couple of text fields on top of it. I need to produce one swf per page, which i know i can do, but I also need all the *text* on the page to be placed into a named movieclip. I need the ability at runtime to toggle the visibility of the text. Unfortunately, it actually goes even one step further. In the lower left and right-hand corners there are page numbers. These text instances should *not* be included in the movieclip that contains the rest of the text on the page. That is, when i turn off the visibility of the text on the page, we don't want to hide the page numbers. I'm open to all kinds of solutions. For example, one thing i thought of was to use the "-s textonly" parameter to create a series of SWFs without the pictures, and then (if it exists) run some sort of "-s notext" parameter to get a version without any text, and then use swfc to combine the two while giving the text a movieclip name. However, i don't know of any such parameter. Furthermore, this doesn't solve my problem with the page numbers, though it might get me far enough that I could do some manual post-processing and still be time ahead. On a related note, is there some resource where all the possible parameters for the -s flag? i looked at -s help, but didn't see "textonly", so i don't know if there are other hidden gems... many thanks, michael
