i'd just like to chime in and say that this is a fantastic community. Ricardo has provided me with a fantastic solution. Many thanks to you, Ricardo, and to everyone else for being here and being willing to help and discuss.
best, michael On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:33 AM, Ricardo Pedroso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Michael Geary <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 think I can work a solution. It's not very hard. > Tell me if you still interested. > > If you can/want donate to SWFTools it will be excellent. > > Ricardo
