On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:13:14 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:06:18PM -0800, Dennis Allison wrote:
I need to construct some pdf documents under Zope that incorporate Macromedia Flash *.swf files (static images). The HTML->pdf programs I have seen don't grok *.swf files so a conversion step is needed. Can anyone point me to a server-side swp->jpg (or other format) converter suitable for use under Linux and Zope?
A solution I've used to extract still pictures from RealVideo files, i.e. a proprietary data format, is a python script which launches RealPlayer then uses ImageMagick's import command to capture it's window and save it as jpeg.
I guess this wouldn't be very good on the server side, but maybe you could do something like that on a workstation if the images you want are static, and then put them on the server already extracted.
Not really the ideal solution, but workable. The images are not generated dynamically so a static conversion to, say, a jpg will do the job. I should be able to write a Python script to do the conversions off-line using the Macromedia standalone player.