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 > > -- > JL > > --------------- SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To > subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend an existing subscription, please kindly point > your favourite web browser at: > > > > -- > Jeff > > > > -- > Jeff > --------------- > SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend an > existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser > at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common>
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