Hi,

I can confirm this behavior and had problems myself. The only way I got rid of 
the hidden text, was by running it through Acrobat.

It would be great to have some sort of command line option to discard hidden 
text. Unfortunately I am not the indicated person to add this feature...

Greetings,
Andreas

On 05.08.2011, at 15:49, JL wrote:

> Hello,  Wondering if anyone had a chance to take a peak at this and offer any 
> suggestions?  
> 
> Does PDF2SWF have any concept of a PDFs "hidden text"  or text that is 
> "overprint" and can keep it hidden in the resulting SWF as it is in the PDF 
> rather than revealing it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JL
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:48 PM, JL <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can pick up the source PDF, resulting SWF and Image of the description of 
> the issue here
> 
> http://www.mediafire.com/?22qib343ezf87
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> JL
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:43 AM, MG Balaji <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi JL,
> 
> Can you please provide one sample pdf for the below mentioned issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Balaji
> 
> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:29:18 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Swftools-common] PDF2SWF - Hidden Text issue
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I posed this question/issue about a year ago or so and there were no 
> responses.  Figured I would try again and see if anyone else has experienced 
> a similar issue.
> 
> On occasion I come across a PDF that has what Acrobat considers "Hidden Text" 
>  Usually the only way to view this Hidden text is to perform "Examine 
> Document" in Acrobat which it then gives you the ability to remove or view 
> that hidden text.
> 
> I have tried conversion with a variety of parameters (flatten, poly2bitmap, 
> etc) with the current version of PDF2SWF and past versions on Windows and 
> this "hidden text" always appear in the SWF output from pdf2swf.
> 
> Acrobat and other PDF Readers seem to honor this hidden text and not display 
> it when opened, but PDF2SWF seems to always show it....any thoughts?  Does 
> pdf2swf understand the concept of what PDF flags as "hidden"?
> 
> If a sample would be helpful, I will see I can locate one that exhibits the 
> behavior.  While the Examine Document > Remove function in Acrobat works to 
> get rid of the text altogether before converting to SWF, many of the PDFs are 
> provided from various Users who would not understand that concept or have the 
> ability to access Acrobat Pro to perform such a process, so if PDF2SWF can 
> accommodate this during the conversion process, that would awesome.  
> 
> Looking at some of the past GIT comments, I saw an entry for something 
> stating "remove invisible characters"
> 
> https://github.com/rpedroso/swftools/blob/3575ceae924318b7d9d518d900eb7742a9db6b10/lib/filters/remove_invisible_characters.c
> 
> But was not sure if that applies to this "hidden text" element or if this 
> update applies to the Windows version of PDF2SWF.
> 
> Thanks for any direction you can point me in
> 
> Cheers
> 
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