Maybe a feature 'wish list' somewhere on the wiki, would better keep track of these kind of requests? Things have a tendency to get lost in even the most moderate 'noise' on mailing lists.
I also recall Matthias mentioning a while back about the possibility of running something like Trac or Bugzilla, http://trac.edgewall.org/ http://www.bugzilla.org/ Thoughts anyone? Chris. On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 20:08:46 +0000 Andreas Eberharter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > -- Chris <[email protected]> --------------- 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>
